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Three Rikers Deaths, Similar Failures: Officers Off Post, Medical Care Bungled

Criminal justice reform advocates protest against detained people dying on Rikers Island Island,

One detainee was found dead with 66 pills in his cell. Another lay in distress for five minutes during an apparent overdose before staff administered Narcan. A third was left locked in his cell, unsupervised, for nearly half an hour as he spiraled into a medical crisis. Those were some of the damning findings outlined […]

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