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Living and Dying on Rikers Island: The Latest Installment

Loaded on Feb. 1, 2022 by Kevin Bliss published in Prison Legal News February, 2022, page 1
Filed under: COVID-19, Conditions of Confinement, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides. Location: New York.

by Kevin Bliss 

When 55-year-old William Brown, a pretrial detainee from Brooklyn, suffered a medical emergency and died on December 15, 2021, it was the 16th death recorded for the year of someone incarcerated at Rikers Island, the sprawling and troubled New York City jail complex. Former Mayor Bill ...

 

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