The restraint desks are used in Rikers’ Rose M. Singer Enhanced Supervised Housing (RESH) unit, designed as an alternative to solitary confinement, where
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A former city council candidate who got a slap on the wrist for trying to steal almost $20,000 in campaign donations only goes to prison on the weekends when a black van picks her and her baby up to bring them to Rikers Island.
In an unusually forceful rebuke, Speaker Adrienne Adams, Comptroller Brad Ladner and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams blasted the mayor over what they see as his wavering commitment to shut down Rikers Island by a 2027 deadline.