{"id":734316,"date":"2021-09-09T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734316"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:05:54","slug":"nycs-rikers-island-prison-faces-humanitarian-crisis-amid-staff-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nycs-rikers-island-prison-faces-humanitarian-crisis-amid-staff-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC\u2019s Rikers Island Prison Faces \u2018Humanitarian Crisis\u2019 Amid Staff Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnycs-rikers-island-prison-faces-humanitarian-crisis-amid-staff-shortages%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734316&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.644567219153\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Correction officers&#8217; union blames Mayor de Blasio for &#8216;horrific conditions&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-460602018-736x490-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-460602018-736x490-1.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-460602018-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-460602018-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-460602018-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-460602018-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-460602018-1400x932.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tMayor Bill de Blasio along with Acting Deputy Commissioner of Youthful Offenders, Adult Programming and Community Partnerships Winette Saunders-Halyard and Department Correction Commissioner Joe Ponte, tours and meets with youth at Second Chance Housing on Rikers Island on December 17, 2014 in New York City. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 September 9, 2021 2:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"65.103319783198\">\n<p>Staffing shortages at Rikers Island have caused a &#8220;humanitarian crisis&#8221; at New York City&#8217;s largest jail, the <em>New York Post<\/em> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Inmates are attacking each other and partying in jail cells as guardposts go unmanned, according to the <em>Post<\/em>. Several inmates have also overdosed on synthetic drugs such as fentanyl\u201424-year-old Esias Johnson died of an apparent overdose just last week, marking the 10th inmate death in the facility since January. Correction Officers&#8217; Benevolent Association president Benny Boscio Jr. blamed the deteriorating situation on Mayor Bill de Blasio, saying the Democrat&#8217;s negligence has precipitated a &#8220;humanitarian crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of Correction Officers has dwindled down to less than 7,600, including the nearly 1,300 Correction Officers who have resigned since 2019 because of the horrific conditions Mayor de Blasio&#8217;s negligence has created,&#8221; Boscio told the <em>Post<\/em>. &#8220;Thanks to his gross mismanagement, we are unable to conduct facility searches for weapons and drugs, inmates aren&#8217;t getting their required services, officers, nurses, doctors, and civilians are getting assaulted with impunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, New York City&#8217;s Department of Correction has scrambled to hire officers to staff Rikers, hiring telemarketers to recruit retirees back to work.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio faced criticism for his city&#8217;s crime spike last year when he <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/policy\/new-york-shootings-2019-total\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defunded<\/a> the New York City Police Department by $1 billion.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Correction officers&#8217; union blames Mayor de Blasio for &#8216;horrific conditions&#8217;  Mayor Bill de Blasio along with Acting Deputy Commissioner of Youthful Offenders, Adult Programming &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}