Four City Council members have decried a practice by city jails of locking severely mentally ill people in their cells for ...

The testimony of social worker Justyna Rzewinski about the extended lock-ins – or “deadlocking” – of severely mentally ill ...

A social worker who recently left a job at Rikers Island said correction officers often lock up mentally ill men in their ...

Detainees with mental health issues are sometimes locked inside cells for weeks or months at a time without access to their ...

Justyna Rzewinski left her job as a clinical supervisor for mental health on Rikers Island just three weeks ago. Her job: to work with some of the island’s most seriously mentally ill detainees.

NYC correction officers routinely lock severely mentally ill men in their cells on Rikers Island for weeks and even months in violation of city regulations, a social worker who left a job in the ...

NEW YORK — The testimony of social worker Justyna Rzewinski about the extended lock-ins – or “deadlocking” – of severely mentally ill people in a Rikers Island jail Tuesday drew the full ...