Newly obtained images from inside Rikers Island have shed more light on the deplorable conditions inside the troubled jail system.
The photos, presented to Manhattan prosecutors by the Board of Correction last month, give a glimpse into the hellish realities faced by inmates on Rikers amid an agency-wide staffing crisis.
One series of stomach-turning pictures inside the jail depict an inmate sitting in his own feces for about 11 hours at an intake center until another prisoner gives him a fresh set of clothes, according to the presentation shown to hundreds of prosecutors in District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.
Another series of disturbing images show a man trapped in a decontamination shower for about 24 hours before he was later removed on a gurney due to self-harm, the presentation revealed.
The presentation was seen by around 200 to 300 prosecutors. The images were first reported by Gothamist and later obtained by The Post.
Other images even show several inmates — not staff — carrying unresponsive detainees either down stairs or across hallways in a bid to get them urgent help. A video shown to the prosecutors details inmates providing first-aid to a suspected overdose victim with the use of Narcan that saved his life. more here
A nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there….
FJB
With a couple hundred innocent men & women held in equally if not worse conditions, with the added cherry of racial abuse & intimidation, in DC for walking through the Capitol on 1/6, my Sympathy Meter for these genuine criminals ain’t budging off of zero.
So the prison is a shithole just like the rest of New York City. Go figure.
They should be happy living in a gated community!
MMinWA,
Yeah, my sympathy meter is also broken, but not even the most heinous inmate deserves those (can’t call them “living”) conditions.
Put the politicians and those that “govern” the prison system in there for a month. THAT would be justice!
the Dems will use this as an excuse to release said prisoners
“… inmates providing first-aid to a suspected overdose victim with the use of Narcan that saved his life.”
…if Narcan did anything, you can drop the “Suspected”.
It HAS to be an opiod overdose. Narcan acts on literally NOTHING else.