Four City Council members have decried a practice by city jails of locking severely mentally ill people in their cells for ...
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.
The testimony of social worker Justyna Rzewinski about the extended lock-ins – or “deadlocking” – of severely mentally ill ...
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 ...
Mayor Eric Adams and DOC Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie have repeatedly denied that solitary confinement exists in the ...
A social worker who recently left a job at Rikers Island said correction officers often lock up mentally ill men in their ...
People declared in need of psychiatric treatment before they can stand trial in New York City wait 60% longer for an inpatient bed than those in the rest of the state, figures obtained by the Daily ...
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