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‘No words can describe the trauma’: Pressure mounts on city to fix Rikers Island crisis

By Harry Parker Posted on September 15, 2021
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No food, no water, no access to basic facilities. A “alarming amount of death,” including at least five suicides. 

These are the conditions that make Rikers Island — New York City’s main jail facility — a living, breathing humanitarian crisis in the middle of the East River, according to City officials, justice activists and relatives of Rikers inmates who rallied and testified at City Hall on Wednesday morning.

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‘No words can describe the trauma’: Pressure mounts on city to fix Rikers Island crisis

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