Hell. Inhumane. Disgusting. These are some of the words used to describe Rikers Island, New York’s massive jail complex, by Benji Lozano, who spent five months there. Vincent Schiraldi, who was formerly in charge of the facility, agrees. He tells Lester Holt of rampant violence, among other issues, which are exacerbated by a staffing crisis. NBC News recently obtained more than 100 hours of surveillance video from inside the complex. The majority of those held at Rikers are awaiting trial and presumed innocent.
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#RikersIsland #NYC #Jails
One night in jail it was getting late
He was B…R by a large inmate
And he screamed
But The guards paid no attention to his cry’s
That’s when things got out of control🤫🙄
Send them to Mexico, we are taking all of their jailed convicts.
Kind of reminds me of sheriff Joe arpaio of Arizona and his tent City
Don’t you think people experiencing assault is inhumane?! if your conditions are inhumane, that’s your problem!
I do have to say that it should be safe.
Nobody in their right mind is going to take a job that puts them into immediate danger and not even police officers and military personnel are in immediate danger right off the bat.
But if you work in a prison you’re put right into the middle of it.
After doing some research on rikers island I discovered that it was run by the Koch family for about 30 years go figure the entire family is complete trash
They are currently working on building 4 facilities for the people at rikers which will likely be just as bad as rikers
Best country in the world huh?
its prison
Who would want to work those jobs? They are low paying, stressful and very dangerous. People are baffled prisons aren’t run well but no one with any real options wants to work in a prison.
The sick leave contract is asinine. Who in government thought that was a good idea?
You need more then eight minutes to tackle this subject
You do the crime pay the time you’re forgive me if I don’t give a f***
You are criminals,what you want a sweet hotel.
interesting this seems to be a blue state issue…..
Perfect home during the zombie apocalypse
Well then don’t commit a crime
Make it worst –
Benji don’t have a lot to complain about. Criming and assaulting gonna get the boy inconvenienced, for sure.
Island Boys. They all islands boys.
Ya’ll ever see a jail in South America? Or any 3rd world countries?
Need 5 more jails like this. Fill them up. Or the NYCPD should walk away.
Some people are “heroes” most convicts are guilty.This is reality most people in jail atleast by the definition of law they should be.You treat others humanly you will face more dignified situations as life goes on same goes if you don’t .
But you notice thy didn’t say anything about better food and medical attention safety attention Recreation Rikers Island is so hellhole they need to close it down all the money in New York City got they can build a brand new prison jail system right here in New York City but guess what they love money they greeted they not going to do anything they don’t care how you live or where you live at it they don’t care if they feed you or not there just as long as you off the streets the son of a government need to investigate that place and close it down it ain’t nothing but a death hole for officer inmates and medical officers
Those poor poor poor criminals
Exactly! Deplorable. The care, custody + control has gone out the window! The issues always come down to the politics! 😠
Disgusting
That’s your living conditions when you are removed from society you have to go live like that so you can realize society is nice
Inhumane actions, get inhumane conditions…. sounds like an even more deterrent to not break the law….
Do your job state of NY
Dont slip and keep you booty hole lips.:+)
County/ City jails everywhere are known for being worse than any prison. Imagine being on trial and not being able to make bail or no bail and spending what could turn into years in there.
That’s what it’s like in third world countries, is that what America is becoming?
Prisons = Money, Money = more private prisons.
Reminds me of franklin county ohio. Wall to wall scabies and human filth. The gards let them torture and victimize each other.
Just think how many are passing Covid to each other
Helping society not taking away…
Or you could not break the law then you wouldn’t have to stay there. 🤷
Do THE CRIME DO THE TIME
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. Don’t let these liberal news channels make you feel that people who go to jail deserve anything. These poor guys didn’t get their health care, while millions of good people have no health care.
BUT, But But i thought new york and california were woke above this. You mean they trample honest peoples rights and treat convicted people like garbage. How woke is that. I just hope they get their pronouns right. But seriously people move away from the big cities. I know they got the money and opportunities that you believe you need but come on at least in the stix we do ok by people.
Free kay
Funny now that he’s no longer running the jail now he’s telling
No sympathy, all prisons should be like this. You’re not there to relax and have fun. Stay tf out of trouble. It’s really not that hard
Dude your in jail.you commit a crime u go to jail your basically a a salve. U deserve better then don’t commit a crime.
Confused on how u think u deserve a kings welcome if you commit crimes
putting it on an island is part of the problem.
As someone who’s never been to Rikers, I can confirm everything they’re saying is true.
You’ll fit in with every person in the comment section.
Free flock ❗
does a crime…. wants us to feel sad for them….. LOL
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Union Mob boss laughing all the way to the bank .
Had to crawl on hands and knees in Parker county jail in Texas !
There not going to treat gout .
Its interesting how folks who complain about unions almost never bring up cops
Oh well.. its none of my business
I’m disgusted. You can’t treat animals like that, let alone people. Many of these people haven’t even been convicted of a crime. This is what happens when you have a policy of mass incarceration.
I think this is an informative show but why the shots of the guy wear a mask on the street? What’s that have to do with anything
Simple solution. OBEY THE LAW!! Society has zero sympathy for these criminals.
Because our country sucks, thats why noones doing anything
Your suffering is what—–>”they” call, BUSINESS(it’s gangster). You wanna be gangster and fall short of being a boss, you end up dead or in there. Sadly, innocent people(victims) is caught up in this madness. Don’t do no crime and the business dies_
There’s nothing worse than a nyc confederate.
It is true. The correctional officers do nothing statewide and the inmates are running around selling drugs, cutting people and beating up cops and nothing really happens to em.. now they have tablets with video games and a music store with movies you can download
Let’s fix it…. all offers call out at the same time!!!
this Is how humanity Is treating Animals. think about that.
My brother did six months here for a broken tail light. Meanwhile trump gets off for getting a capital officer killed and high treason.
Unions are all corrupt
Sick leave abuse I would be sick too the abuse that we co go threw is mental .
That is Administrations failure. Failure to protect COs, failure to provide safety and control of inmates. That’s what happens when your leadership aren’t promoted COs but corporate implants. Instead of some lady monitoring cos sick days that job should be another well trained and supported officer enforcing control of the jail. They need to shift their leadership and enforce new creative measures to protect COs and inmates.
They interviewed a criminal loser….don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time
DO LIKE NORWAY
Don’t break the law an you won’t find yourself in that situation.
Close it down DOJ!!!
Come on u corrupt NYC !!!
Pure corruption at the highest leave in the NYC office!!! Pure corruption in the DOC
Pure corruption!!!
Pure corruption!! Where the money and help NYC???? THE GOVERNOR??
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I had no idea prison was supposed to be The Ritz Carlton!
When you hire the same people that should be filling these jails what did you think was gonna happen
don’t break the law and you wont end up there. nyc has high crime rate. we need less of that
I have an easy solution- DO NOT COMMIT CRIMES. that will keep you out of all jails 😀
Dear lord hope i never get in any trouble in NYC.
You can’t be serious. Transfer them to Antananarivo Prison in Madagascar. Rikers is a 5 star resort compared to this place. You Tube it.
CO’s are prisoners too.
Just here to se where Trumps Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is going and loving it-
New York City is a Rough Place it shouldn’t have a eazy jail
Its prison, not the 4 Seasons!
Because the union representative’s view is inherently unbiased … I should take him at his word.
don’t break laws!
am i the only one who thinks prison is kind of stupid? yes there are bad people like murderers, rapists, etc. Most people are sent to jail over absolutely ridiculous things. You are sent to jail for hitting someone even for self defense. what I don’t understand why is it okay for someone else to initiate violence but it is not allowed for you to defend yourself? I feel like the whole prison system is just a sham. keeping all the “outcasts” of society locked up in horrible conditions while all the stupid “normal” people and their selfish behavior is tolerated by society. I feel like only .0001 percent of society are true sociopaths who need to be locked up. in that case just sentance them to death
Maybe they need a 2nd prison.
same as every downtown state area then lol profit prisons, doomed nation.
Inhumane 😂.. it’s housing inhumane people. You Deserve nothing better. It is prison not Disneyland. Don’t want to go to rikers Island. Simple…. Don’t be inhumane piece of garbage.
Can’t wait till Steve Bannon gets sent there.
Contract out the work
Its all drugs. They just cant keep up with the incoming population.
Rikers is were Steve Bannon needs to go . He needs to suffer , for his crimes .
police officers sound so uneducated.
I live in a foreign country and I heard that kangaroos and koalas 🐨 are housed there.
Typical Union BS
All the inmates I met in the Anna M. Kross Center in 2001 wanted their trials to end and to receive their sentence, so they could go to prison where it is much nicer.
This is unrealistic the inmates that come hers are drug addicts and drug dealers and most are here to do te and go home some come to fight and cause havoc to inmates and officers so before you blame the cos put the uniform on and walk our footstep