The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has initiated a statewide prison lockdown and search of all its correctional facilities, resulting in the cancellation of visits until further notice.
lieutenant, of people walking in, et cetera, he s going to be walking in with all of these co-defendants, they walk in before their defense has been presented in court. i m glad you bring it up. can you talk about the conditions also a little bit in more detail in the jail itself? there has been a lot of reporting on it but you know it better than most folks. i mean, if you could, could you repeat that last question? is. just if you could speak i heard you. i want to make sure i m accurate. can you speak to the conditions inside this facility, this jail specifically? i understand that there have been some improvements but, again, we ve looked at a facility for the past 3 1/2 years that has been under be turmoil, whether it s been manpower shortages, whether it s been inmate violence. again, i m not making up these narratives. these are things that are documented as well that has been shown on network television.
complex a humanitarian crisis. can rikers be fixed. joining me now, retired officer and retired lapd sargent. rikers island has become more disfunctional in the last year. why do you think that is? there seems to be plenty of blame from administrations to the inmates. it sounds like the mayor may be on the road to recovery. if you don t hold those committing abuses of inmates, encouraging and looking the other way when there s inmate on inmate violence and corrections officer on inmate violence. there has to be accountability. detective, why are we seeing
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new york city is facing a reckoning of its own. the notorious rikers island jail has been site of numerous atrocity, so much so that a number of new york congressional delegates have called for it to shutter immediately. mayor bill de blasio is headed there for the first time in four years. tiffany cross is looking into it. i ve missed you. it is good to be with you and i am so glad you re digging deep into what goes on in ryker s island. let me just say first, ali, it is a pleasure to have you back from your well-deserved time off and glad to share the screen with you this morning. yeah. you brought up a very serious subject, just this past week there was yet another death at rikers and this is the 11th death this year and reports of widespread inmate violence and deplorable conditions that are common place at this complex and i ll be talking to hakeem broader, the brother of khalif broader and as you know, khalif was housed unjustly at rikers