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Rikers Island Forced to Reopen Closed Jail as Understaffed State Prisons Refuse Transfers

The Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island.

The Adams administration is preparing to reopen a jail facility on Rikers Island to add space for convicted people who should be moved to state custody but can’t right now because of post-strike chaos.  The city Department of Correction is set to once again house detainees inside a small section of the Anna M. Kross […]

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