https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/5/11/22...ion-boss-quits
The city Department of Correction suffers from a “pervasive level of disorder and chaos,” with the use-of-force rate against inmates hitting a five-year high, according to a new report from the federal monitor overseeing New York’s jails.
Hours before the scathing report’s release, Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann announced she will be resigning at the end of the month.
She’s leaving behind a department plagued with a backlog of 1,445 officer disciplinary cases and chronic staffing shortages, according to the report, which covers the last six months of 2020. Earlier this month, a spike in jail officers calling out sick forced the lockdown of the largest facility on Rikers Island.
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