Feckless de Blasio denies the horrors of Rikers and rapes

When it comes to dealing with the infernal horror on Rikers Island, Mayor Bill de Blasio doesn’t want to challenge his assumptions that he knows nothing of. In response to The Post that published photographs last weekend of the inhumane conditions in the island’s prisons, de Blasio claimed that Washington Post’s reporting on what happened weeks ago “doesn’t reflect what it is now.” Entire setting changed. More space [has] He said – and then went on to blame corrections officers’ failure to show up for duty due to overcrowding at…

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