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February 2020

Incidents of slashings and stabbings in city jails surged 10.4 percent last year and physical confrontations between detainees and corrections officers rose sharply to a staggering 37 percent—and the City Council Committee on Criminal Justice is trying to find out why. On Monday, senior officials from the city’s Department of Correction appeared at a hearing before the committee to examine the unsettling statistics cited by Council Member and committee chairman Keith Powers. According to data provided by the mayor’s office, in 2019, overall violence between inmates escalated by 12 percent. “Over the years that I’ve been here, the City Council has been increasingly