Three NYC Dept. of Corrections officials resign

Three key officials at the Department of Corrections resigned Friday, just months after several prisoners held religious parties and a jailed female rapper posed for a magazine photo shoot for a hip-hop magazine.

Chief of Department Carolyn Thomas and Frank Squillante, assistant chief of special operations, both turned in their resignations effective Oct. 31, sources said. George Okada's resignation as warden of the Manhattan detention complex is effective the middle of next month, sources also said.

In June 2009, rapper Foxy Brown, who was serving nine months on Rikers Island for beating two nail salon manicurists in 2006, did a jailhouse interview with XXL Magazine.Correction officers allowed Brown to do the interview and pose for the photo shoot to promote her new album.