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I-Team: Jail video shows Rikers staff ignore prisoner as he hung himself in plain sight
Video obtained by the NBC New York I-Team shows Rikers Island correction officers failing to intervene — for nearly eight minutes — as an inmate hangs himself in their plain view. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports. (Video produced by NBC’s Linda Gaudino.)
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‘I Felt Isolated': Formerly Incarcerated Women Will Sue Over Sex Abuse in NY Prisons
Formerly incarcerated women gathered outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday to recount the horrors of sexual abuse they say they endured during their time in New York state prisons. Mia Wheeler, a former inmate at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the largest women’s prison in the state, says she was raped numerous times on numerous occasions by a...
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Formerly Incarcerated Women Sue Over Horrifying Accusations of Sex Abuse Behind Bars
They say the abuse happened inside dozens of facilities, such as Bayview, Bedford Hills, and Rikers Island, Erica Byfield reports.
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Midterm Voters Decide to Overturn Slavery in Several States – But Not All
Voters in five states went to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether to ban slavery and forced prison labor.