Late last month, city Correction Department officials asked the jail oversight board to expand bed capacity in certain Rikers Island dorms from 50 to 60 beds.  The so-called variance request — initially approved in February — was needed to deal with overcrowding as the jail population swelled to 7,645, Correction Department Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie wrote […]

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