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Rikers Officials Never Took Basic Steps to Comply With Solitary Ban

A so-called punitive segregation unit inside the George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island.

The city Correction Department never took several basic steps to comply with a new law that would have strictly limited the use of solitary confinement, internal jail records show..  The law had been set to go into effect on Sunday before Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday signed an emergency executive order that blocked major parts […]

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