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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

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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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