By Reuven Blau
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — It’s getting a little bit harder to get into jail.
Correction Department honchos have yanked more than 150 Rikers Island access passes issued to various social service groups, lawyers and their assistants. The crackdown comes after a sex offender was busted for allegedly sneaking into city jails and casually wandering through restricted areas for months.
“As part of our top to bottom review, we are taking every measure possible to fortify our security systems,” jail spokesman Matthew Nerzig said. That will likely include basic background checks for all those seeking special passes, jail insiders said.
Matthew Matagrano, 36, a convicted child molester, was arrested earlier this month and charged with impersonating a Correction Department employee.
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