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March 1, 2024
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from PLN March, 2024
Rikers Island Detainees Given Pricey Weight-Loss Surgery but Little Follow-Up Care by From New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, detainee David Mustiga, 43, was transported to the city’s Bellevue Hospital in February 2023, after a jail medical staffer told him he could trim his 300-pound weight with bariatric surgery. …

