NYC jails oversight body rejects plan to ban mail and packages at Rikers

Correction Commissioner Louis Molina speaks to the Board of Correction Wednesday about his proposal to keep personal mail and packages from being sent directly to Rikers Island detainees as an activist holds up a sign protesting the board's new policy limiting the number of people who speak at its public meetings.

The Board of Correction pushed back against the claim that drugs are coming into the jails in the mail. [ more › ]