Rikers Official Forced Out Under Adams Returns to Oversee Discipline

Rikers Official Forced Out Under Adams Returns to Oversee Discipline

Days after Mayor Eric Adams took office, his hand-picked correction commissioner ousted the official overseeing thousands of backlogged use-of-force investigations inside the city jail system — a move cheered by correction officer unions that long viewed her as overly aggressive. More than four years later, that same investigator, Sarena Townsend, is returning to the Department of Correction with the backing of the federal court’s remediation ma…