When Guards in New York Cityâs Jails Lie About Use of Force [Want to get New York Today by email?
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Six years ago, New York City agreed to hold correction officers at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex more accountable for misconduct, as part of a legal settlement with federal prosecutors after years of complaints about abuses by guards.
But an analysis of a newly released database of disciplinary records, while limited, shows that violence by guards continues to be a problem in the cityâs jail system. The records suggest that attempts by guards to cover up excessive use of force or other infractions have been pervasive.
Bob Fass, Pioneer of Underground Radio, Dies at 87
His provocative “Radio Unnameable,” long a staple of the New York station WBAI, offered a home on the FM dial to everyone from Abbie Hoffman to Tiny Tim.
Bob Fass on the air at the New York FM station WBAI in 1972. “I’d put anyone on,” he once said, “because the idea was if you didn’t like what I was doing, three minutes later I’d be doing something else.”Credit.Donal F. Holway/The New York Times
April 25, 2021Updated 10:48 a.m. ET
Bob Fass, who for more than 50 years hosted an anarchic and influential radio show on New York’s countercultural FM station WBAI that mixed political conversation, avant-garde music, serendipitous encounters and outright agitation, died on Saturday in Monroe, N.C., where he lived in recent years. He was 87.