FEDERAL MONITOR: JAILS TEEMING WITH ‘DISORDER AND CHAOS’
A “pervasive high level of disorder and chaos” is plaguing city jails, according to a Federal watchdog. In a status report addressed to a U.S. District Judge, Steve Martin, the monitor charged with cataloging the Department of Correction’s efforts to mitigate what for decades has been one of the nation’s most stubbornly violent jail systems, […]
NYC CORRECTION OFFICER FRACTURES SKULL IN VIOLENT ATTACK BY INMATE ON RIKERS ISLAND
A New York City correction officer was hospitalized with a fractured skull after a violent attack by an inmate on Rikers Island on Monday. The officer was assaulted just after 9 a.m. on Monday morning in the prison’s George R. Vierno Center, according to the Department of Correction. He received a fractured skull, a fractured […]
6,500 ACCUSED FELONS GO SCOT-FREE AS NYC DAS DECLINE TO PROSECUTE
District attorneys across the Big Apple last year declined to prosecute accused felons at nearly twice the rate of 2019 — letting more than 6,500 suspects off the hook, The Post has learned. Prosecutors dropped all charges in 16.9 percent of the 38,635 felony cases that were closed in New York City during 2020, according […]