NEW YORK — A federal judge should consider holding New York City and its Department of Correction in contempt for failing to adequately address security, management and discipline at the problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex, a court-appointed monitor recommended Monday in a new report.
The recommendation followed the monitor's conclusion"that the risk of harm in the jails remains grave and that the jails remain patently unsafe" after a year of"unprecedented rates of use of force and violence."
The report said that"some progress has been made" since a monitor was appointed in 2014 but it also said court-ordered reforms"remain incomplete or have not been addressed," leaving"no meaningful relief for people in custody or staff from the violence and the unnecessary and excessive use of force."
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