A federal judge approved the city’s plan to make long-sought changes on Rikers Island, essentially eliminating the threat of a federal takeover for at least the next several months. The order filed Tuesday marks a win for the city and the Department of Correction and comes days after the federal monitor in the case expressed doubt about the city’s willingness to follow its recommendations for the proposed action plan.
“This action plan represents a way to move forward with concrete measures now to address the ongoing crisis at Rikers Island,” Southern District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote in the order, while making clear that the case could turn depending on the city’s progress in implementing the plan. “The Court has approved the proposed measures contained within the action plan, in full recognition that further remedial relief may be necessary should Defendants not fulfill their commitments and demonstrate their ability to make urgently needed changes.”
The city filed the proposed action plan in late May after federal monitors appointed to oversee the department threatened to take control of the system if the city failed to comply with their recommendations. The jail system has been under federal supervision since a class action lawsuit in 2015 alleged rampant abuse and dysfunction.
The plan filed in May outlines timelines for proposed reforms, which include tamping down on abuse of sick leave policies among correction officers, hiring new leadership under a modified chain of command, improving infrastructure at the jail facilities and expediting correction officer disciplinary proceedings.
The department submitted an updated version of the plan on Friday after Swain gave it two weeks to come up with a more detailed proposal. During that time, a dispute over the hiring of wardens outside of the department became a point of contention between the monitors, along with the Legal Aid Society, which represents the jail population in the case, and the department. The monitors wrote in a letter to Swain on Friday that the city refused to agree to their recommendation to hire wardens outside of the department, and was unwilling to seek special permission from the court to circumvent city and state laws prohibiting it from doing so.
Swain indicated that the department has committed to seeking special permission from the court if it encounters other legal barriers that prohibit it from implementing recommendations. She also denied Legal Aid’s request to set a briefing schedule for a possible contempt motion to trigger the federal takeover.
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So a totally incompetent city agency gets a temporary reprieve from being taken over by an only slightly less incompetent (but likely even more corrupt) Federal agency.
Everything's going swimmingly!
Fake Progressives are actually leading society to regressive policies.
We REALLY Need to bring back any more mental institutions like they used to have back in the day for these types of people. They shouldn't be bad like they used to be but they are a necessity.
Quite literally, "The inmates are running the asylum" in our fair city.
This craziness was not tolerated when Giuliani cleaned up NYC.
Most NYers voted for this. No sympathy for the Sheeple.
They are all guilty because the cops and fake media say so. Why bother with a fair trial.
Freedom for everyone except people I don't like.
Thank you Mr de Boasio & Ms Cray. Your NYC vision came through!
I can fix the crisis. Deport the illegals then half the population would be gone. Then bring back the death penalty and 5 percent more of the population would probably be gone. Problem fixed. Room opens up, alot of the gang members are either deported or given the death penalty and most problems would be solved for now until of course they come back over the border which is a different story.
Looks just like the border. Good job DemOrats...
No more mean tweets said...
People in cages.
#letsgobrandon
@They are all guilty because the cops and fake media say so. Why bother with a fair trial.
Freedom for everyone except people I don't like.
Sound like the Jan. 6 sham committee, Bidet Bot.
I like the close the borders and deport illegals suggestion. Stop paying illegal immigrant woman to pop out Jackpot Babies. Take care of our citizens and veterans first. Stop Chain Migration. Stop Chinese Birth Industry.
Should make a lot of room in Rikers
No matter what happens, the criminal loving politicians like Heastie, and Cousins will do what they can to protect the rights of career criminals to keep them out of prison and put them back on the streets so they can run amok and slash, stab, punch, push, shoot and kill innocent people over and over again.
This is what progress means to them.
Criminal loving politicians are not the only cause.
The Lame Stream Media has all the Sheeple brainwashed with help from the UFT.
@“ Criminal loving politicians are not the only cause.”
Seems like a lot of criminal loving Trumpanzees around too.
Why do right wingers love criminal politicians so much?
Dose anyone here think Mash Potato Brains is going to live in a memory-care facility in 2024
They keep saying “ failed planning “ or failed leadership “ they haven’t failed . Everything is going according to plan. Just not our plan.
Random Guy said...
@TrumpTurds ToiletBowl Most post you type here are not true TA Commie troll.
But as my beloved Jordan Peterson once said, limiting speech is the same a limiting thought.
@Dose anyone here think Mash Potato Brains is going to live in a memory-care facility in 2024?
Alas, 'Mashed Potato Brains' is already dead——he just won't lay down! Also, the real asylum is outside of the walls of Rikers: City Hall and Albany! This manmade political tragedy (more commonly known as the remnants of a shabby society that is reliant upon death, sickness, disease and existential dread to prosper) has long ago collapsed while the violent, mentally ill lawbreakers run the show——with the DemonRats' blessing! The DNC (Does Not Care - about democracy) must have all read and memorized the same instructional tome: How To Destroy Civilization For Dummies (now in its Fourth Edition in order to keep pace with 'The FOURTH World')!
❝ ... while madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.❞ ——Joyce Carol Oates
❝I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve——I do not know.❞ ——Epicurus
❝This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.❞ ——George Bernard Shaw
I don't blame the Feds. I want nothing to do with Rikers either.
@Dose anyone here think Mash Potato Brains is going to live in a memory-care facility in 2024?
Alas, 'Mashed Potato Brains' is already dead——he just won't lay down! Also, the real asylum is outside of the walls of Rikers: City Hall and Albany! This manmade political tragedy (more commonly known as the remnants of a shabby society that is reliant upon death, sickness, disease and existential dread to prosper) has long ago collapsed while the violent, mentally ill lawbreakers run the show——with the DemonRats' blessing! The DNC (Does Not Care - about democracy) must have all read and memorized the same instructional tome: How To Destroy Civilization For Dummies (now in its Fourth Edition in order to keep pace with 'The FOURTH World')!
❝ ... while madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.❞ ——Joyce Carol Oates
❝I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve——I do not know.❞ ——Epicurus
❝This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.❞ ——George Bernard Shaw
Creepy Joe is correct. The problem isn't all this violence. The real problem is too many violent people in prisons, too many mental patients in the nut house and too many billionaires who aren't paying their fair share and and FOSSIL FUELS! We just have to keep our priorities straight and save the planet by falling off our bikes...
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