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More Than 40k 311 Calls From Rikers Go Into a Black Hole Every Year

Loaded on April 1, 2026 by Reuven Blau, Kennedy Sessions published in Prison Legal News April, 2026, page 58
Filed under: Failure to Treat, Totality of Conditions, Telephone Access, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Administrative Detention/Segregation. Location: New York.

by ReuvenBlau and KennedySessions

This article was originally published in The City.

 

After visiting her son on Rikers Island last June, Benjamin Kelly’s mother dialed 311 in a panic.

He was hallucinating about an insect crawling up his nose, dead bodies in …