Posted on 10/11/2021 3:55:40 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Inmates of New York City's Rikers Island jail complex are reportedly running amok.
Detainees at the understaffed jail have taken control of entire units, The New York Times reported.
Inmates of New York City's long-beleaguered Rikers Island jail complex are running amok at the notorious lockup - and some have taken control over entire facility units, The New York Times reported on Monday.
"Rikers has long been dysfunctional, decrepit and dangerous," Zachary Katznelson told the news outlet. He's the executive director of a research and advocacy organization called Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform.
But Katznelson added, "What we see today is next level. It is an inability to deliver even the basic services - something we haven't seen in a long time, if not ever."
Detainees at the severely understaffed jail complex, which is made up of eight buildings and currently houses about 4,800 inmates, have asserted power over whole units, deciding who can enter and exit them, The Times reported, citing interviews and records.
Some Rikers inmates have stolen keys and used them to free other detainees, according to The Times.
In August, a man awaiting trial at the facility snatched keys from a city Department of Correction officer, set free another detainee, and then slashed the guard's face and neck with a knife, the report said.
During another disturbing incident on September 16, a handcuffed Rikers inmate hijacked an unguarded bus with other detainees on board and crashed it into a jail building, according to The Times.
Other detainees have run wild in staff break rooms, as well as restricted areas of the complex, and openly broke rules against smoking tobacco and marijuana, the newspaper reported.
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Tanks you DeBlasio and Cum-o
Things are going to get very real, very quickly
wonder if inmates in jails across the country are being forced to get the experimental shots to protect each other...
At least their leadership has a sense of direction.
I hope they don’t escape and swim over to LaGuardia Airport, running amok on the runways..
All part of the Commie plan!
I only know Rikers Island from the 1970s TV show “Barney Miller.”
Suspects held longer than a couple of hourse were sent to Rikers Island, and the nutcases were sent to Belleview Hospital.
Just like prisons in Central and South America.
Gradually, then suddenly.
The problem cannot be solved with current management, they must all either be fired or moved to non-prison positions and a new team brought in. All significant issues with large organizations start with managment and until that is replaced nothing will improve.
ITYS. “I told you so”. This will be as important a reply and meme, as “Let’s go Brandon!” The event by event, step by step decline of Urban Blue is as predictable as night follows day. But the supporters of idiots like De Blasio, Lightfoot, Newsom, Pritzker, etc. never get it. Perhaps the “Woke” will wake up? Naw.
“The current staffing crisis has exacerbated these issues and that is an acute problem we must fix today. No jail can run properly when a third of its staff are sick, AWOL, or otherwise unavailable to work,” Schiraldi said.
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Hmm. Wonder why they’re staff shortages? It’s a mystery.
I first heard of it in that Jim Carroll song:
Brian got busted on a narco rap
He beat the rap by rattin’ on some bikers
He said, hey, I know it’s dangerous
But it sure beats Riker’s
But the next day he got offed
By the very same bikers
And this is a surprise because...?
Art imitates life...one of my favorite video games is Tom Clancy’s “The Division.” In it, a bio-engineered plague originates in Manhattan and sweeps the country just before Christmas, causing mass death and the collapse of authority. One of the major antagonist groups you’ll face as the player? “The Rikers.” Former Rikers Island inmates who banded together under a charismatic leader, took over the prison, and mass-escaped to raise hell in Manhattan.
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Hopefully, this is true and it goes very badly, as New York deserves this Bigly.
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