Hundreds of mentally ill people are routinely trapped on Rikers Island for months at a time without court-ordered treatment they need to stand trial, a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday afternoon by the city’s largest public defender organization charges. The New York State Office of Mental Health and top city jail officials repeatedly flout judges’ orders […]

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