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May 9, 2012
Rikers Violence: Out Of Control
Shocking images back up what we've been reporting for years: New York City's jails are houses of horror
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October 30, 2009
Jail Guard Charged In Inmate Assaults
Prosecutors in the Bronx have indicted a correction officer for beating up two inmates and trying to cover up one of the incidents at jail housing teenage detainees. The case emerged from an broad investigation into problems at the Robert N. Davoren Center that started after the fatal 2008 beating ... More >>
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June 3, 2009
Rikers Boss Steps Down -- After 2-Year Voice Series
City Correction and Probation Commissioner Martin Horn, one of Mayor Bloomberg's longest serving appointees, announced his resignation today. He's leaving a jail system that for the last two years has been the subject of Voice stories about corrections officers condoning and even arranging violence ... More >>
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May 11, 2009
Rikers Fight Club: New Law a Response to Jail Violence
Following a drumbeat of negative news about the city jail for teenagers, and after the outcry over the murder of 18-year-old Christopher Robinson there, Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a bill yesterday that requires the Correction Department to disclose safety and census data on teens in jail. ... More >>
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April 15, 2009
Rikers Fight Club: The Knockout Punch
Documents show that top officials in the city's jail system were regularly briefed on violence and extortion between teen inmates.
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March 12, 2009
Family of Dead Inmate Confronted by Angry Correction Officers Outside Court
Simmering tensions between the family of a teenager beaten to death at Rikers Island and correction officers erupted today at the Bronx courthouse. As an arraignment for several inmates charged in the case ended, more than 30 correction officers confronted members of Christopher Ro ... More >>
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February 23, 2009
Jails Commissioner Finally Confronted by City Council
In the ongoing controversy over the murder of teenager Christopher Robinson at a Rikers Island jail, someone in the City Council finally tried to pin down Correction Commissioner Martin Horn on what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did to stop it. Robinson was fatally beaten i ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
Rikers Fight Club: More Widespread Then The City Admits
Even as indictments came down for two jail guards accused of using teen inmates as enforcers, Correction Department officials sought to downplay the breadth of the problem.The indictments last month followed the October murder of teenager Christopher Robinson in the Rikers Island jail for young offe ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
Rikers Fight Club: Not Just A Recent Problem
Our "Rikers Fight Club" coverage has prompted additional people to report their own nasty experiences at the teen jail where 18-year-old Christopher Robinson was beaten to death by inmates allegedly working as enforcers for two wayward correction officers. Cesar Ferrer, now a 29-ye ... More >>
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February 11, 2009
Letters: The View from inside Rikers
Our "Rikers Fight Club" coverage has prompted additional people to report their own nasty experiences at the teen jail where 18-year-old Christopher Robinson was beaten to death by inmates allegedly working as enforcers for two wayward correction officers. Cesar Ferrer, now a 29-ye ... More >>
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February 9, 2009
Jail Guard Union Throws Party for Indicted Guards
Last Friday, the Voice has learned, the union for correction officers held a 10-hour fundraiser to benefit three members who were indicted two weeks ago for deputizing teen inmates as enforcers in a Rikers Island jail. In the fallout that has followed the murder of te ... More >>
News
February 4, 2009
Rikers Fight Club
After indications for more than a year that guards were using inmates as enforcers, New York's jails are rocked by a pair of indictments
Blogs
January 23, 2009
More Coverage of Rikers Island "Fight Club" First Covered Here
In July 2007 Graham Rayman revealed in the Voice that guards at Rikers were deputizing inmates "to beat up other inmates," sometimes paying them with cigarettes, and that internal reports were played off and at least one whistleblower fired. "Young people tell me when they go in there, the culture i ... More >>
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January 22, 2009
3 Arrests in Inmate Killing Probed by Voice
You've seen the stories Voice reporter Graham Rayman has been writing about the October killing of Christopher Robinson on Rikers Island -- how the 18-year-old inmate was beaten to death under peculiar circumstances and how, after Rayman's continued probing, first one and then several Corrections ... More >>
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December 1, 2008
More Heads Roll in Wake of Rikers Jail Murder
You've seen the stories Voice reporter Graham Rayman has been writing about the October killing of Christopher Robinson on Rikers Island -- how the 18-year-old inmate was beaten to death under peculiar circumstances and how, after Rayman's continued probing, first one and then several Corrections ... More >>
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November 26, 2008
Rikers Death Forces Out High Jail Official
You've seen the stories Voice reporter Graham Rayman has been writing about the October killing of Christopher Robinson on Rikers Island -- how the 18-year-old inmate was beaten to death under peculiar circumstances and how, after Rayman's continued probing, first one and then several Corrections ... More >>
News
November 26, 2008
City Jails Chief Gets Off With Only a Few Sentences
Council members barely question Martin Horn on the deadly teen jail at Rikers
Blogs
November 20, 2008
Follow-Up: Grand Jury Will Hear Case of Teen Killed at Rikers
Council members barely question Martin Horn on the deadly teen jail at Rikers
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November 19, 2008
Teen Murder at Rikers Jail
New details about the slow and painful death of a Brooklyn kid. Did guards turn a blind eye?

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