Serious Injuries on Rikers Island: Improving Violence Prevention in New York City Jails

ICPA2023 Presentation by Bart Baily (ICPA2023-PID035)

Author

Bart Baily

Director, Violence Prevention, New York City Board of Correction, United States

Bart Baily is the Director of Violence Prevention with the New York City Board of Correction, an independent oversight agency that regulates, monitors, and inspects the city's correctional facilities and enacts regulations to support safer, fairer, smaller, and more humane jails. Much of his work with the Board has focused on injury surveillance and prevention, data and reporting integrity, structurally restrictive housing, disciplinary due process and procedural justice, and investigations of serious injuries and deaths. Prior to his work with the Board, he worked for a public-defender organization in New York City, the Legal Aid Society, for which he provided jail-based legal services to people incarcerated on Rikers Island.

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