For detainees on Rikers Island spiraling into a psychiatric crisis, a trip from the troubled jail complex to one of the city’s public hospitals can serve as a medical lifeline.  But that relief is often short-lived. In around half the cases, detainees are returned to Rikers within hours after what critics describe as cursory hospital […]

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