A former experienced parole officer asserts that her agency intentionally botched the cases of high-risk sex offenders to comply with the governor’s directive to lower the prison population and the number of those under state supervision.
Rita Flynn, 67, worked for the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for 42 years, eight of which were spent supervising cases involving individuals convicted of heinous sex offenses.
She stated that cases were purposefully mishandled, including instances in which convicted pedophiles were released from supervision despite red signs in order to commit new sex crimes, and that colleagues were promoted for turning a blind eye and dismissing cases.
Flynn stated that supervisors discouraged her from reporting indicators of abuse in an attempt to make the state’s sex offender supervision program appear successful.
Rita Flynn has two pending lawsuits against Michael Falco and the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Flynn told the Post, “They are covering up criminal activity by high-risk violent offenders in order to appease Albany and discharge people to appease the governor’s office.”
Flynn, who worked as a parole officer out of DOCCS offices in Westchester and Dutchess Counties from 2007 to 2016 on the agency’s Sexual Offenders Management Unit, requested that the Office of the Inspector General investigate her claims, and included in her letter what she claimed were cases that were intentionally botched:
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