A Lawyer Was Wrongly Charged With Bringing Drug-Laced Papers Into Rikers

The Correction Department said Bernardo Caceres’s papers tested positive for THC, a cannabinoid. Then officials tested the papers again.

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Public Defender Is Charged With Smuggling THC-Laced Paper Into Rikers

Bernardo Caceres was at New York City’s jail complex to meet with a client when an envelope he had drew the attention of a Correction Department dog, officials said.

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Bernard Kerik, New York’s Police Commissioner on 9/11, Dies at 69

His meteoric rise to become New York City’s chief law enforcement officer was later tarnished after he pleaded guilty to federal corruption and tax crimes.

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Outside Official Will Take Over Deadly Rikers Island Jail, Judge Orders

Laura Taylor Swain, a federal judge, seized control of New York City’s lockups, which have been rife with violence and dysfunction.

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Harvey Weinstein Becomes an Unlikely Voice in the Push to Close Rikers

The disgraced producer has complained volubly about his treatment in jail on Rikers Island. Advocates for detainees say any attention to conditions there can’t hurt.

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Adams Is Allowing ICE to Return to Rikers. Here’s What to Know.

Federal immigration officials had been barred from the New York City jail complex. The mayor says they can return, but only to work on criminal cases.

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This Agency Fights Corruption. New York City Leaders Have Weakened It.

The Department of Investigation, tasked with stamping out corruption in city government, has lost more than a quarter of its employees since 2019.

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5 People Have Already Died on Rikers This Year as Crisis Worsens

Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is fighting to keep control of the troubled complex and other New York City lockups that have been plagued by violence and deaths in custody.

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Man Accused of Shoplifting Dies at Brooklyn Courthouse

The cause of death was not immediately clear. Four other people have died this year in city jails or just after being released from custody.

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To Finally Close Rikers, Panel Suggests Making It Someone’s Only Job

The jail is “decrepit, dysfunctional, and violent,” according to a report from a commission appointed by the City Council speaker, Adrienne Adams.

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