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Through the Cracks
The 1988 brutal rape and murder of a young mother and her daughter has left the child's grandmother, Phyllis Little, with 21 years of questions. In 2009, the NYPD announced they had arrested a man and charged him with the double-murder. Reporter Joshua Kors provides a detailed look at the lives of the murdered mother, as well as the man accused of killing her. Kors also describes the pain and guilt felt by Little for more than two decades.
Tags: crack; Bronx; low-cost housing; DNA; Five Percenters; Rikers Island prison; Bronx River Projects; West Farms
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Harsh Medicine
In New York ,Prison Health,Inc., was the health care provider for pre-trial detainees and troubled youths at Rikers Island and inside the city Juvenile Justice Department. It is also the largest company responsible for medical and mental health care in American jails. However, Prison Health was operating illegally in New York and also was responsible for multiple deaths due to its providing of inadequate medical or mental heath care.
Tags: health care; prisons; mental health care; medical health care; Prison Health,Inc.
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Dumping inmates
WFLD-TV learned that Rikers Island in New York had routinely released mentally ill inmates from prison in the middle of the night without provisions of supervision, and began to wonder if Cook County jails practiced the same thing. By staking outside the Cook County jail after midnight, WFLD was able to identify mentally ill inmates as they were released. The reporters and produces spent two months staking outside the jail and properly identifying inmates as mentally ill.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Prisons; inmates; mentally ill
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Roaming Rikers
Jennifer Gonnerman reports on Rikers Island, "home to 80 percent of its 14,600 or so inmates, with nine jails for men and one for women." The in-depth article details life in these jails and illustrates the difference between men and women behind bars. In addition, the article provides insight into punishment, discipline structure and morale in this multi-million dollar jail system through interviews with wardens, commissioners and inmates. Gonnerman also examines issues including violence, gangs, suicide, pregnancy and retention.
Tags: prisons; prisoners; guards; crime; suicide; police; wardens; pregnancy; gangs; weapons; defense
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New York (NY) Magazine takes a look at the conditions inside Rikers island prison. The powerful article chronicles the story of how the inmates run the jail and how correctional officers are frightened and intimidated by the inmates. The attempts by the Guiliani administration to cut funds to the prison system and to increase the number of inmates is not seen as an antidote by those who work in the system. Most officers liken the atmosphere within the prison to that of the 1990 situation in which inmates rioted; Rikers is seen as a bomb waiting to explode, Oct. 14, 1994
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Jail City
New York magazine travels inside Rikers Island, the world's largest penal colony.
Tags: Minorities; Recividism; Prisons; Criminal justice