Top officials at the city’s Department of Correction and its independent, citizen watchdog group the Board of Correction took the tenants of the new year to heart on Wednesday, promising to have a more collaborative and less confrontational 2024 than they did 2023.
Read MoreJust days after being admonished by a federal judge for allegedly attempting to buck oversight efforts, Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina skipped out on this month’s Board of Correction meeting.
Read MoreThe embattled chair of the Department of Correction’s oversight body was missing in action on Friday during the Board of Correction’s monthly meeting, the first to be held since the oversight board sued the DOC over the agency’s decision to revoke the board’s remote access to video surveillance footage from within Rikers Island.
Read MoreThe Board of Correction, the citizen watchdog board charged with providing oversight to the Department of Correction, sued the agency in an effort to regain unfettered access to video from within Rikers Island after DOC brass revoked the board’s ability to view it remotely earlier this year.
Read MoreThe Board of Correction’s monthly meeting fell into chaos after technical difficulties left the board’s livestream sputtering, and after the board’s chair clashed with a criminal justice reform advocate and his fellow board members agitated by the board’s inability to hold its scheduled public hearing.
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