Last month, the independent monitor overseeing Rikers Island issued a scathing report on the chaos and dysfunction there, calling for the city to be held in contempt.

In a new report Monday, the monitor said things have not improved since then.

“The department’s efforts over the last few weeks have been haphazard, tepid and insubstantial,” the report said. "While a few of the proposals (if meticulously developed and properly implemented) could address problems in discrete areas, they will not create the type of culture change and practice improvements that are prerequisite to effective reform.”

The report also gave an update on deaths at Rikers. So far this year, seven people have died while in custody or shortly after release, including two in the past month. Staff have been disciplined in five of the seven deaths, which involved security lapses like unlocked doors and lax supervision.

“Alarmingly, many of these practices appear to have become normalized and staff seemingly fail to recognize the resulting safety risks or the ways in which these practices elevate the likelihood of a tragic outcome,” the report said.

The incidents have spurred calls for a federal takeover of Rikers, including from good government group Citizens Union, which came out in support of receivership last week.

“The number of deaths that are occurring at Rikers is appalling and very upsetting,” said Betsy Gotbaum, the group’s executive director, in an interview Monday. “The fact that there just seem to be so many things happening there all the time, and it never gets any better. And I think that was the final straw.”

Also backing receivership is Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District, who is also party to the federal court case that will determine Rikers’ future.

In advance of a pivotal court hearing in that case on Thursday, the monitor’s report laid out a proposed timeline.

It said that the parties would continue to confer and submit a joint statement to the judge by Sept. 11. If by then the parties have reached no joint resolution, the plaintiffs would file a motion for contempt and application for receivership by Nov. 17. The city could then file its opposition by Jan. 16, and plaintiffs would reply by Feb. 15.

Only then would a final decision come on receivership. And what that would look like exactly remains to be seen.

“How long does the takeover last? How long is this going to be?” Gotbaum said. “What are we going to get for it? What does it mean, the federal takeover? Will they do a real cleanup and fix things up? I certainly hope so.”

Mayor Eric Adams is forcefully opposed to federal receivership of Rikers. In response to Monday’s report, a spokesman for the New York City Law Department said only that "the city is reviewing the report.”