More than a dozen detainees have died in less than a year while in custody at Rikers, prompting a lawmaker to call it a “humanitarian crisis.”
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More than a dozen detainees have died in less than a year while in custody at Rikers, prompting a lawmaker to call it a “humanitarian crisis.”