New York Jail

Corrections officers at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York. The City of New York will pay up to $5 million in the settlement of a class action lawsuit.

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Rikers Settles Class Action Solitary Confinement Case

4:49pm December 13, 2017

by Rebecca Feldhaus Adams

More than 450 plaintiffs are approved to receive compensation for time they spent in solitary confinement at Rikers Island under the "old time" policy.