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When investigators came knocking, correction officers absent from posts at Rikers Island and other parts of the city’s crisis-stricken jail system hurried to sneak home via their back doors, used “smart” two-way video door bells to stall the probers, called the police, and instructed relatives to lie about their whereabouts. ....

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