Guards on Rikers Island are so overworked that many clock in an average of more than 100 hours a week at the scandal-scarred jail complex, records show.
Internicola, 55, a city corrections officer since 1996, worked 3,692 hours of overtime plus regular shifts during the fiscal year ending June 30 – or an average of 111 hours weekly, according to records.Of the 50 city employees who worked the most overtime in fiscal 2022, 44 were DOC officers and captains – including Internicola and a dozen others leading the pack with more than 3,000 extra hours each. Michael Thompson, an 11-year correction officer, was second with 3,617 overtime hours.
However, DOC staff are falling well short of being compensated like overtime hogs in other city agencies, an examination of cityInternicola’s workload was more than any city employee took on in at least a decade, but he was nowhere near the city’s top overtime earners last fiscal year, despite pocketing $151,096 in extra pay on top of his $92,073 regular salary. Neither was Thompson, who made $150,049 in OT.
Richard Reilly Jr., a Corrections Department engineer, was second, earning $231,869 in OT; and Bevelyn Barkley, another supervising deputy sheriff, was third with $227,151 in overtime.Of the 50 city employees who worked the most overtime in fiscal 2022, 44 were DOC officers and captains.
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