HELL ON RIKERS ISLAND — BUT DE BLASIO DOESN’T CARE
Hell has broken loose in city jails on Rikers Island as inmates run wild and guards fear for their lives. It’s another massive fail by Mayor Bill de Blasio and his team down at City Hall. Though the jail population is at an all-time low, conditions for both correction officers and inmates are worse than […]
OUT-OF-THEIR-MIND POLICY AT OUT-OF-SIGHT AGENCY
About an hour into the rally by jail-officer unions just outside the Hazen Street Bridge to Rikers Island Aug. 16, Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association President Benny Boscio accused the de Blasio administration of trying to make conditions there worse: “‘Let’s let Rikers Island fall apart so we can have a narrative that says we gotta […]
AN ‘ABSOLUTE EMERGENCY’ ON RIKERS ISLAND AS VIOLENCE INCREASES
A detainee was stabbed. A correction officer was slashed. And another person imprisoned on Rikers Island had scalding water thrown on him, causing second-degree burns all over his body. Those episodes were included in a letter that a federal monitor filed with a court on Tuesday that described “unreasonably high” levels of violence inside the […]