Rikers investigations leader's return sets up battle with correction officers' union ^48.4%

Gothamist - By Ryan Kost - 6/14/2026, 3:31 PM

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Less than four months after a court-appointed manager took over key parts of the city's jail system, the correction officers' union is already fighting one of his first big hires: Sarena Townsend, a reformer who ran the department’s misconduct investigations until she was forced out four years ago. Townsend is returning to an expanded... more