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The Inmates Of Rikers Island Are In Control Of The Jail, The New York Times Reports (Covid Mandates)
Yahoo ^ | 10/11/21 | Natalie Musumeci

Posted on 10/11/2021 3:55:40 PM PDT by Enlightened1

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; covidmandates; covidstooges; inmates; jail; nataliemusumeci; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; obamacare; rikersisland; vaccinemandates
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To: Enlightened1

21 posted on 10/11/2021 4:30:40 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Enlightened1

Inmates running the asylum, just like a miniature Washington, DC.


22 posted on 10/11/2021 4:36:05 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: Enlightened1
"Detainees at the understaffed jail have taken control of entire units, The New York Times reported."

And nobody really gives a rats rear end about it...

Escape from New York is sounding more like a plan then a movie....

23 posted on 10/11/2021 4:39:00 PM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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To: Enlightened1

Inmates are in control of the entire state.


24 posted on 10/11/2021 4:41:02 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: dfwgator

Haven’t thought of that one since the 80’s. Thanks!


25 posted on 10/11/2021 4:46:28 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Enlightened1

The only solution to this problem that I can see would be to send Cuomo and Deblasio into the prison to negotiate with the inmates. They would have to go in alone of course as a show of good faith. This shouldn’t be a problem though, as Cuomo is a tough guy. He could even take his tough guy brother Chrissy with him for physical support. Deblasio on the other hand is not a tough guy, but since he’s married to a black woman all the black inmates would like him and probably do whatever he suggested.


26 posted on 10/11/2021 4:51:13 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: Flick Lives

I think it is due to the weather.


27 posted on 10/11/2021 4:54:10 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: Enlightened1

The inmates are in charge of the White House too


28 posted on 10/11/2021 5:04:37 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Enlightened1

Not a word about this in the MSM. Must not have received the Memo! /s


29 posted on 10/11/2021 5:05:42 PM PDT by DrDude (Time to make the Donuts!)
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To: Navy Patriot

No smoking in prisons was an amazingly stupid idea—smokes helped to calm down the prisoners.

You can’t fix stupid.


30 posted on 10/11/2021 5:08:37 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

in san diego years ago awol marines from MCRD -marine core recruit depot used to run across lindberg field runway while making a break for it...


31 posted on 10/11/2021 5:08:47 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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32 posted on 10/11/2021 5:11:26 PM PDT by knarf
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To: Enlightened1

Seeing that Riker’s Island is an island, why not just terminate all food deliveries to it and if it depends upon external electrical power and water, shut them off. Putting them under an old fashion siege seems a good way to starve them into submission.


33 posted on 10/11/2021 5:25:39 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

Yeah, I was thinking that too. Just announce food will return when they are all in their cells and the keys are thrown into the hallways.


34 posted on 10/11/2021 6:16:04 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Let's Go Brandon!!!)
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35 posted on 10/11/2021 8:04:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Figures; The inmates are in charge of the insane asylum which America has become, as well.


36 posted on 10/11/2021 9:18:59 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Well, I now see I’m not the first one to come up with what I posted above

GMTA.


37 posted on 10/11/2021 9:22:10 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Enlightened1

Rikers is not a pleasant place. Usually and problems are dealt with using overwhelming force. Without the staff it must be as bad as New York after dark under DeBozo.


38 posted on 10/11/2021 9:26:36 PM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: dfwgator; Tijeras_Slim

Some of us remember...and updated it.

https://youtu.be/FiVFoFuF-M0


39 posted on 10/11/2021 11:50:48 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | http://mewe.com/i/hopalongginsberg)
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