The New York City Correction Department is investigating an incident Saturday where a Rikers Island detainee somehow slipped out of his locked cell and allegedly attacked a female officer while another officer failed to come to her aid, the Daily News has learned. Investigators are looking into the alleged assault that started just before 10 a.m. in the West Facility on Rikers Island, which .
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Cultural icon Gloria Steinem has thrown her support behind turning a shuttered state prison on Central Park North into the new jail for women, the Daily News has learned.
Lawyers for the Legal Aid Society suspect that many more than 1,000 detainees missed appointments because correction officers are absent or unavailable to work with prisoners.