A report found the average length of stay for detainees on Rikers Island has nearly doubled from 61 days in 2016.
Donate NowInmates at Rikers Island spent an average of 115 days locked up at the jail last year – four times the national average, according to a federal monitor report published on Monday.
Nearly a quarter of the jail population was held for longer than a year in 2022, the report shows. The vast majority of those incarcerated at Rikers are awaiting trial, the report stated. As of Monday, 86% of people in custody across the city’s jails are waiting for their cases to conclude,“There is no question that any personal challenges an individual may have faced prior to incarceration are only exacerbated by exposure to a correctional environment,” the report stated.
“Misconduct was being identified much less frequently than in the past,” the report said. “Staff had been influenced or prompted, either overtly or implicitly, to adopt a more lenient approach when assessing cases and to change their practice in ways that compromised the quality of the investigations.”
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