NEW YORK — Brown water spews from faucets and shower heads in at least one Rikers Island housing area, detainees say — a condition they blame for rashes and stomach woes, and which advocates say is another sign of deplorably cruel conditions at the city’s jails.
Many in a housing unit containing 50 or so people at Rikers’ Anna M. Kross Center began to break out in strange rashes and experience digestive problems, five detainees told the Daily News.
They and their relatives complained to staff and filed at least two dozen 311 complaints. But they say nothing has been done to fix the problems — and the Department of Correction says it has had no reports of any issues with brown water at the Kross Center.
