New York City Council members took aim at the new commissioner of the Correction Department about the problems with Rikers Island and the city's jail system.
"The department has provided an alarming lack of data which is necessary to accurately evaluate the staffing and budgetary needs of the department," Chair of the Committee Carlina Rivera said.
According to the Correctional Officers Union, over 2,700 officers have retired or resigned since 2019 and only 75 have been hired to replace them. "While these initial trends are promising, we still have a long way to go to get that number back to normal," Molina explained. Molina said the average length of stay in the city's jails increased from 187 days to 329 days. To put that in perspective, that is four times longer than a stay at the Los Angeles County Jail, the largest jail system in America.
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