The City Council’s committee on criminal justice held a six-hour hearing on the issue — but no vote.
Advocates spoke of incarcerated people indefinitely locked alone in cells or caged showers, resulting in extreme psychological trauma. They held signs with the names of those who recently died at Rikers Island, including several who died by suicide after being held in isolation. Family members of the deceased said officers failed to protect their loved ones.
Keisha Williams, a vice president for the correction officers’ union, said she was sexually assaulted by an incarcerated person in 2016. Williams said her assailant was never punished for what he did, while “I, on the other hand, am forced to relive the burden of that trauma every single day for the rest of my life.”
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