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LAS Renews Call for Receivership of City Jails

The Legal Aid Society has long maintained that independent leadership with the authority to enact bold and swift change is necessary to end the humanitarian crisis on Rikers Island.

LAS Decries Abrupt End to Public Notifications of Deaths in Custody

The Department of Correction is no longer informing the public when a New Yorker in their custody dies, part of a continuing effort to hide the ongoing crisis in City jails.

Special Report: Violence on Rikers Island Continues

A new report from the federal monitor overseeing City jails details five “serious and disturbing incidents involving harm to incarcerated persons” over the past two weeks.

LAS: Proposed Budget Cut Will Make Rikers Island More Dangerous

Mayor Eric Adams' plan to cut civilian programs from City jails will only serve to further destabilize an already dire situation.

LAS: Monitor Report Reaffirms Need for Independent Leadership at City Jails

Despite claims of progress, the use of force continues against incarcerated New Yorkers and serious staffing issues plague the Department of Correction.

LAS: DOC is Failing to Properly Track New Yorkers at Rikers Intake

The Legal Aid Society has filed a contempt motion in response to the department's ongoing failure to reliably track and process people out of intake on Rikers Island within 24 hours.

Whistleblowers Warn of Growing Transphobia, Homophobia in Local Jails

Under the leadership of Louis Molina, The Department of Correction has expressed indifference to the well-being of incarcerated TGNCNBI individuals.

LAS: Board of Correction Must Have Access to Jail Video Footage

Recent action by Mayor Adams obstructs the Board by denying the oversight body full access to videotape surveillance of the jails.

LAS Files Second Contempt Motion Against Department of Correction

The motion is the result of the Department's ongoing failure to provide incarcerated New Yorkers access to medical care.

LAS Asks Judge to Place City Jails Under Receivership

In papers filed today, Legal Aid announced it will seek receivership of the Department of Correction, the only way to end the widespread suffering of thousands of incarcerated New Yorkers.