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New York City Held in Contempt in Long-Running Rikers Island Class-Action
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2025, page 54
Filed under:
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Contempt (Civil Procedure),
Consent Decrees,
Class Actions.
Location:
New York.
On November 27, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held the city Department of Correction (DOC) in contempt of a consent decree and subsequent remedial orders entered in a long-running class action challenging what the Court described as the DOC’s “pattern and practice ...
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