inhumane the last eight years. the de blasio administration has basically allowed it to rot. not fixing. cell doors not being able to lock. not hiring correction officers in over three years. housing inmates by gang affiliation where you have one officer on the floor with 50 inmates. they put us at a huge disadvantage. finger pointing aside, everyone agrees rikers is horribly broken. you did 25 years, was anything you experienced in prison as bad as rikers? i ve experienced a lot of horrible things but that was probably the most frustrating and upsetting thing i ve ever experienced. we as corrections officials should be apologizing for our role in mass incarceration.
community all of a sudden carted off by the police, cell doors closed behind them and some of them went to prison and they did absolutely nothing wrong. i woman who was eight months pregnant 20 prison, a 19 year old went to prison, people with very young children all of a sudden had to say goodbye to their kids and were locked up injail and got absolutely no support from the post office. someone who appeared at the inquiry earlier said he felt he could not be a proper parent to his children because he felt so ashamed that people thought he had stolen all of this money. people who lived near him, neighbours and friends and they thought they had stolen it and it was a faulty computer system. even those people who have cleared their names and had these convictions quashed, they are still waiting for what they believe is meaningfuljustice. . waiting for what they believe is meaningfuljustice. waiting for what they believe is meaningfuljustice. meaningful ustice. , no one has been new m
disciplined for everything under the sun, but inmates are assaulting us with impunity, and there are no consequences or deterrents in place. how would you describe the conditions at rikers island? the conditions at rikers island have been inhumane for the last eight years, the de blasio administration has basically allowed rikers island to rot. you know, not fixing the infrastructure, cell doors not being able to lock. not hiring corrections officers in over three years. housing inmates by gang affiliation, where you have one officer on the floor with 50 inmates. so they really put us at a have huge disadvantage. reporter: finger pointing aside, everyone agrees that rikers is horribly broken. you did 25 years in the penitentiary. was anything you experienced in prison as bad as what you experienced at rikers? i ve experienced a lot of
Vista jail cell where deputy was attacked was not retrofitted with security measure
There are growing concerns about whether a weekend attack on a deputy by two inmates at the Vista jail could have been prevented. ABC 10News discovered that the jail cell had not been updated with an additional security measure.
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VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) - There are growing concerns about whether a weekend attack on a deputy by two inmates at the Vista jail could have been prevented. ABC 10News discovered that the jail cell had not been updated with an additional security measure.
jail for a whole day, overnight. what did you experience behind bars for this cause? and what did you see and learn while you were literally locked up for this? well, first of all, i m white so, you know, i benefit from white privilege and i m famous so i was alone in a cell and there was a guard outside my cell which i thought was really interesting. the only people who can get in are guards so my experience doesn t isn t like other people, but the most disturbing part of being there was the prize of desperation. just words tumbling out of you couldn t even understand. people just howling in desperation and banging their cell doors and banging their cell walls. you know, it was clear that we are not as a nation providing safety nets to people who need them. we re not providing mental health services to people. instead, we lock them up, and that s wrong. it s only going to get worse as