Layleen Cubilette-Polanco was arrested in April and sent to New York's Rikers Island jail because she could not afford the $500 bail, her family said. Nearly two months later, the 27-year-old ...
New York City's Department of Correction plans to discipline more than a dozen officers for their conduct related to the death of Layleen Polanco, who died at Rikers Island in 2019. Mayor Bill de ...
Layleen Polanco’s Death Haunts a Prideful CelebrationJust weeks before the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, Polanco, a transgender woman, died in a solitary confinement cell at Riker’s.
New footage outside the Rikers Island jail cell in New York City where transgender woman Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco died last June reveals that guards tried to wake her for approximately an ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A transgender woman who died in a New York City jail had a seizure disorder and other health problems and had been hospitalized weeks before, her family’s attorney said Tuesday amid ...
(FOX) — Seventeen corrections officers in New York City will face disciplinary action in connection with the death of a transgender woman who died in solitary confinement on Rikers Island. The ...
Family members of Rikers Island inmates who committed suicide or died from other causes while in solitary confinement pleaded with Mayor Adams and other elected leaders Friday to abolish the harsh ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A transgender woman who died in a New York City jail had a seizure disorder and other health problems and had been hospitalized weeks before, her family’s attorney said Tuesday amid ...
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