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$28.75 Million Settlement Paid by New York City in Suit Alleging Rikers Guards Stood by and Watched Detainee Hang Himself

by Douglas Ankney

On April 5, 2024, the City of New York agreed to pay $28.75 million to settle a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint filed by Madeline Feliciano, whose grandson Nicholas Feliciano hanged himself in November 2019 at the city’s Rikers Island jail complex—after which city Department of Correction (DOC) ...

 

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