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| ikers reforms are taking root: The city's correction commissioner says New York's jail is on the path to reform |
| By nydailynews.com- Joseph Ponte |
| Published: 08/25/2015 |
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When I took the job of city correction commissioner last year, no one said that it would be easy to reform the long-abused and oft-neglected department. Violence has been rising for many years. This has roots in gang tension in our streets and in the growing prevalence of small, hard-to-detect blades and razors that have been smuggled into the jails. Last month, we had 22 slashings and one stabbing, with many of the incidents gang-related. Yet we are doing everything possible to stop the violence. And in the areas where we have put our new models in place, violence has dropped. In the young-adult facility, where we ended punitive segregation (what the public calls “solitary confinement”) and increased the officer-to-inmate ratio, we had zero stabbings or slashings last month. In the housing units where we rolled out our new classification tool to more effectively sort and house the most violent, we had zero stabbings or slashings last month. And in our new enhanced supervision housing where we house some of the island’s most violent inmates, we have had zero stabbings or slashings since these units opened in February. Read More. |
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