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Queens

Rikers Island secret lounge and supply stash built by Correction Department blasted by Legal Aid Society as ‘lawless’

By Max Parrott Posted on October 16, 2023

The Legal Aid Society says a secret lounge built on Rikers Island by the Department of Correction amounts to a “gross mismanagement of funds and supervision.”

A Daily News report Monday publicized a memo from 2021 documenting the illicit activities. The city Department of Investigation report, obtained by the outlet through a Freedom of Information request, documented a furnished lounge and a concealed supply room stocked with unused snowblowers, air conditioners and other supplies in a part of the jail that was vacated and barred from use in 2015.

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Rikers Island secret lounge and supply stash built by Correction Department blasted by Legal Aid Society as ‘lawless’

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