The Department of Correction has failed to meet “core obligations” of a five-year-old consent decree intended to address the violence-plagued Rikers Island jails and will now be subject to additional oversight, the office of Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Audrey Strauss said Aug. 6.
She issued a “remedial order” intended to correct “systemic deficiencies” that continue to bedevil the notorious jail complex, notably unnecessary use of force against inmates, as well as shortcomings in the DOC’s investigations of those incidents.
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