Former inmate to run New York City prisons | DW News

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that Stanley Richards, a former inmate, will serve as New York City’s next Commissioner of the Department of Correction. Richards served time at Rikers Island prison for robbery in the 1980s. He later worked as a counsellor helping inmates re-enter society and led rehabilitation programs at the facility, according to local media.

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