Rikers honchos get lavish parties — while guards work 24-hour shifts

Two New York City corrections officials were lavished with retirement parties on Rikers Island this week, with hundreds of employees enjoying extravagant onsite celebrations — complete with a water-cannon salute and a marching band — even amid a staffing crisis and surge in inmate violence inside the troubled jail.

The pair of over-the-top, on-the-clock, booze-filled revels were thrown for Chief of Department Hazel Jennings and Bureau Chief Becky Scott, stunned insiders told The Post. More than 200 people feted Jennings Friday during a catered outdoor affair that featured lobster, Italian dishes and rum punch, sources told The Post.