Horror at Rikers Island and what a former LePage appointee can do about it

On Monday, The New York Times published a damning investigative report about the treatment of inmates at the hands of corrections officers at Rikers Island in New York. Over the course of 11 months last year, 129 inmates suffered injuries beyond the capacity of the jail’s doctors to treat in-house incidents with corrections staff members. Seventy-seven percent of the severely injured inmates had a mental illness diagnosis.