Departing head of NYC’s troubled jails will continue to work with department
this month for a new role at City Hall, experts were divided over how the departure will affect the dangerous conditions at Rikers Island.
Elizabeth Glazer, who led the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice under Mayor Bill de Blasio, said the change in leadership could provide an opportunity for improvement in a jails system where conditions are the worst they've been in "many years." Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association president Benny Boscio said the union will work with any new commissioner committed to helping it build its staff headcount “to provide safety and security in our jails in order to move this agency forward.”
She said receivership was still necessary to change the culture of Rikers and ensure detainees’ basic rights are being met. Michael Jacobson, the former Department of Correction commissioner from 1995 to 1999, agreed that federal receivership was still necessary, regardless of a change in leadership.
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