New York City’s prisons have seen a rise in violence every year of Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, according to a city report released Monday.
The report shows that several measures of prison violence have increased under de Blasio. Inmate-on-inmate violence has more than doubled between 2013 and 2017. Inmate assaults on staff and serious injuries to inmates have nearly doubled as well.
“The latest jail violence statistics reaffirm the warnings we’ve made year after year for the past four years. We said that inmate assaults would go up when punitive segregation was eliminated for inmates 21 and under while failing to impose any restrictions for the same individuals who commit violent crimes behind bars,” Correction Officers Benevolent Association president Elias Husamudeen told the New York Post. – READ MORE
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