{"id":312,"date":"2014-10-28T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=312"},"modified":"2016-12-09T21:03:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T21:03:20","slug":"joint-statement-by-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-and-fire-and-criminal-justice-committee-chair-elizabeth-crowley-re-retirement-of-department-of-correction-chief-of-department-william-clemons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2014\/10\/28\/312\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Statement by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Fire and Criminal Justice Committee Chair Elizabeth Crowley. Re: Retirement of Department of Correction Chief of Department William Clemons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor too long, the Department of Correction has been rife with the mismanagement and mistreatment of inmates, and the Council\u2019s oversight has only served to further shed light on the deep-seated issues plaguing the DOC.<\/p>\n<p>We thank U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara for spearheading investigations and urge Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Ponte to appoint new leadership that will commit to implementing transparent and humane policies that will  keep the public safe, maintain the dignity of the City\u2019s jailed population and resolve long-standing allegations of abuse and neglect at Rikers Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor too long, the Department of Correction has been rife with the mismanagement and mistreatment of inmates, and the Council\u2019s oversight has only served to further shed light on the deep-seated issues plaguing the DOC.<\/p>\n<p>We thank U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara for spearheading investigations and urge Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Ponte to appoint new leadership that will commit to implementing transparent and humane policies that will  keep the public safe, maintain the dignity of the City\u2019s jailed population and resolve long-standing allegations of abuse and neglect at Rikers Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}