Former ‘Progressive’ NYC Jails Commissioner on Rikers Today

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 23, 2022

Vincent Schiraldi, former Commissioner of both the New York City Department of Probation and Correction and co-director of the Columbia University Justice Lab, talks about his brief tenure as correction commissioner at the end of the de Blasio administration, and whether the crisis on Rikers could be partly addressed by going into a federal receiv­er­ship.

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