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Rikers Island Takeover Plan Due Friday But Two Sides Are at Odds Over ‘Receiver’ Details

The Manhattan skyline loomed over a jail complex on Rikers Island.

Last September, a federal judge overseeing the city’s troubled Department of Correction ordered jail officials to confer with lawyers for detainees to develop a plan for an “outside person” to operate the system.  The two sides — defendants and plaintiffs in the notorious “Nunez case” — have not been able to reach an agreement nearly […]

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