Most of the board members of the city agency that oversees Rikers Island now want the city jails taken over by the federal government.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.that ran in the Daily News on Wednesday, five of the eight members of the Board of Correction slammed the leaders of the Department of Correction, which runs the jails, for “attempting to shroud the jails in impenetrable darkness.”
Correction officials’ “preference for looking good over doing good is patently dangerous to all who are held or work in the jails,” wrote board members Rachael Bedard, Robert Cohen, Felipe Franco, DeAnna Hoskins and Jacqueline Sherman. The mayor opposes such a takeover, but in recent weeks the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and an independent monitor installed by the federal government eight years ago have indicated that a receiver is the only way to stabilize a system that had itslast year. Twenty-six detainees have died since Adams was inaugurated in 2022.
The Department of Correction “is attempting to limit the monitor’s access to information,” Martin wrote to the court. “This approach to working with the monitoring team is the antithesis of advancing reform and appears to be yet another attempt to inhibit the monitoring team’s ability to conduct neutral and independent assessments of the current state of affairs and for department leadership to control the narrative of the current state of affairs.
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