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Comptroller KOs Controversial Correction Commissary Contract

Comptroller Brad Lander speaks at a City Hall Park rally calling on the city to stick with its 2027 timeline to close Rikers Island, March 16, 2023.

The city’s top fiscal watchdog rejected a no-bid $33 million Rikers Island commissary contract that Department of Correction officials gave to a private firm with problems around the country, including two bribery scandals and multiple legal challenges for gouging the incarcerated.  Comptroller Brad Lander cited a “litany of procedural failures and contract shortcomings” in the […]

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