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Executive Director Amanda Masters’ plans come amid a showdown between the Board of Correction and Department of Correction over transparency.
Videos have been an important window for outsiders into conditions at the jail.
It was the second month in a row Louis Molina snubbed the jails’ oversight board.
Correction officers did almost nothing to help dying detainees, a report by the Board of Correction finds.
The city has until November, at least, to fix deplorable conditions at the jails.
One board member who is supposed to be overseeing the facility defended the preventable deaths as "natural."
Detainees said they’ve gone weeks or even months without leaving their housing units.
"Blaming the courts..is like the captain of the Titanic blaming the iceberg.”
Officers were "confused" about how often they were supposed to check on the 27-year-old transgender woman, found dead in her cell on Rikers last summer.
The Department of Correction's oversight board just approved a fourth extension on ending the practice.