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 ...

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 attention of ...

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.

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 attention of ...

Mayor Eric Adams and DOC Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie have repeatedly denied that solitary confinement exists in the ...