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Footage of Inmate Suicide Captures Dysfunction on Rikers Island
The New York Times has obtained video of the 2022 death of Michael Nieves, a mentally ill detainee who mortally wounded himself on Rikers Island.
Harbor-area leaders call for end of ICE use of Terminal Island
The island was once home to 3,000 first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before many were taken to internment camps ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Dreams deferred, not denied: Graduation held for inmates at Rikers Island
The East River prison allowed one news crew, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, onto their grounds to witness the triumph and determination of young detainees, awaiting their cases to be adjudicated by the ...
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Alcatraz Island Was Touted As Being Escape Proof, But Did Three Prisoners Achieve The Impossible?
The post Alcatraz Island Was Touted As Being Escape Proof, But Did Three Prisoners Achieve The Impossible? first on TwistedSifter. Alcatraz Island Was Touted As Being Escape Proof, But Did Three ...