Dave Mallach

Welcome to my blog. I worked as a civilian manager for New York's Department of Correction (DOC) from 1987 to 1993. In my late twenties I was lucky to obtain a staff job in the Commissioner's wing. From there I became an administrator in DOC's Investigative Division. I ended my career as manager of DOC's drug treatment programs. These positions gave me a unique and interdisciplinary understanding of the causes of violence on Rikers Island. And how to stop it.

I've recently retired from my second and improbable career as a yacht broker. For lack of a better alternative, it now appears I am the institutional memory of Rikers. Recent finding by the Department of Justice and the press indicate that brutality on Rikers has exceeded even that of the 80's, a time when crack was king and the jails were bulging at their seams.

So as historian, commentator, content aggregator, and perhaps in a small way the conscience of Rikers, I present this blog as a pathway out of the violence.