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Rikers Island inmate faces cooking oil theft charges in Pa.
Police in Luzerne County say they extradited a prisoner in Rikers Island to face charges in a cooking oil theft investigation ...
Faulty fentanyl tests spurred NYC's push to ban mail on Rikers Island
A push by New York City jail officials to block people detained at Rikers Island from receiving physical mail was based on ...
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New York's Rikers Island Mail Ban Proposal Under Fire Amid Faulty Fentanyl Test Findings
NYC's Rikers Island mail ban proposal is questioned due to high rates of false positives in fentanyl field tests, where only ...
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In latest Rikers security breach, man takes ‘drunken’ scooter jaunt around jail island
A wee bit tipsy man on a scooter somehow blew past two checkpoints and roamed around Rikers Island before his nighttime ...
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Faulty fentanyl tests spurred NYC’s push to ban mail on Rikers Island
A push by New York City jail officials to block people detained at Rikers Island from receiving physical mail was based on faulty fentanyl test strips that overstated the influx of contraband sent ...
New York Daily News7d
Should judges keep the mentally ill out of Rikers? Not my problem, one says.
An attempt to keep a schizophrenic man out of Rikers Island — where deplorable conditions for the mentally ill have been well documented — ran into a brick wall recently when a Manhattan Crimi ...
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New York City's Push To Ban Mail at Rikers Was Based on Drug Test Kits With an 85 Percent Error Rate
In 2022, former New York City Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Molina testified before the city council about the flood of fentanyl coming into Rikers Island, the city's infamous jail ...
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Faulty fentanyl tests spurred NYC’s push to ban mail on Rikers Island
NEW YORK (AP) — In 2022, New York City’s jails commissioner, Louis Molina, issued a dire warning to local lawmakers: fentanyl was pouring into Rikers Island through the mail, he said ...
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Faulty Fentanyl Tests Spurred NYC’s Push to Ban Mail on Rikers Island
Faulty Fentanyl Tests Spurred NYC’s Push to Ban Mail on Rikers Island NEW YORK (AP) — In 2022, New York City’s jails commissioner, Louis Molina, issued a dire warning to local lawmakers ...