Correction Department managers haven’t given enough justification to renew the contract of a company that provides TV, movies and other entertainment to detainees at Rikers Island and other New York City lockups, the city comptroller says.
City Comptroller Brad Lander refused to renew the contract for Securus Technologies, which has a sole-source contract to supply entertainment to tablets detainees use in the city’s jails. Securus also supplies the tablets themselves, under a separate contract.