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NEW YORK — A string of missteps that included leaving detainees locked in their cells as a smoky fire raged around them were outlined in a city Board of Correction report released Friday about a near-deadly blaze in a Rikers Island jail. One detainee was severely burned and several others suffered serious smoke inhalation in the April 6 fire, which the Board of Correction report confirmed was ...

Correction Department officials failed to perform required weekly and monthly fire safety inspections for at least a year before a near-deadly blaze in April in a Rikers Island jail that injured 20 detainees and officers, records obtained by the Daily News show. A July 27 internal Correction Department memo states that an audit of fire safety records in Rikers’ North Infirmary Command could ...

Sprinklers in part of Rikers' North Infirmary Command were shut down after a detainee broke a sprinkler head. When that happened — and whether the Correction Department tried to fix it — was unclear, said a report. The system has since been fixed.