Earlier this month, Wayne Salisbury, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, announced to employees that he will step down from his post to take on a new role with the U.S. District Court-appointed receiver overseeing efforts to reform New York’s Rikers Island jail complex.
Officials in New York City marked a major construction milestone this week at the Brooklyn Borough-Based Jail, placing the last piece of structural steel atop the 15-story facility during a traditional “topping out” ceremony.
New York City has opened a new 104-bed therapeutic housing unit at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue that will house people in custody with complex medical needs, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced April 7.
New York City Department of Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards has appointed Margaret “Meg” Egan as the agency’s First Deputy Commissioner.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Stanley Richards as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction — the first formerly incarcerated individual to lead the Department.
As correctional systems plan more facilities in urban areas, many are choosing to build upward rather than outward. Vertical construction is becoming more common due to land scarcity, zoning limitations, adjacency to courts and the need for secure centralized services.
Los Angeles-based Tutor Perini Corp. and East Coast-based O&G Industries Inc. have formed a joint venture and, in collaboration with the American architecture firm HOK, have been selected as the apparent proposer for the Manhattan Jail Facility design-build project.
The City of New York by and through its Department of Design and Construction (DDC) released a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) on Monday, Sept. 13, in connection with the Design-Build Program for the NYC Borough Based Jail System, Detention Facilities in the Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.
Inmates housed in some of the most expensive real estate in the country will soon be getting a break thanks to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s signing a bill into law that will make it free of charge for inmates to make calls from New York City prisons, reported WPIX
Closure of the first jail on Rikers Island will take place this summer.
Recognizing longtime and emerging industry leaders.
Winners announced at annual Corrections Summit.
