There are 10 jails on Rikers Island holding the bulk of the 9,500-odd detainees and inmates in New York City custody each day.
A writer currently incarcerated on the island writes that re-establishing similarly flawed facilities elsewhere will displace the problems on Rikers, but won’t dispense with them.
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