Jails big admits lockup’s a mess

The head of the city’s jails on Thursday acknowledged “serious problems” at Rikers Island, just hours after The Post exclusively revealed video clips of three inmates attacking another and a group of inmates partying.

Correction Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi said he hadn’t seen the disturbing cellphone recordings but didn’t dispute their authenticity during an afternoon news conference.

“The level of disorder here is deeply, deeply troubling,” Schiraldi said after being told what the videos show. “I’m not going to deny that there are serious problems here.”

Schiraldi said work was underway to repair an unspecified number of broken cell doors in Rikers’ Robert N. Davoren Complex.

A spokesman for the city correction-officers union said about 500 doors remained busted, fueling violence and other misconduct by inmates who are able to come and go virtually at will.

Schiraldi, who was appointed in May, said he hoped to improve conditions by ending triple shifts for officers and creating programs to occupy inmates’ time productively.

He also said the Department of Correction had hired a telemarketing company, DiRAD Technologies, to help recruit 600 additional correction officers, a fraction of the 2,000 demanded by the union.

Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association spokesman Michael Skelly said no officers had been hired since February 2019 despite more than 1,300 resignations.