‘Morally repugnant’: Guards stopped sick detainee from seeing doctors prior to her death, report says

 ‘Morally repugnant’: Guards stopped sick detainee from seeing doctors prior to her death, report says

Correctional officers on Rikers Island refused to allow nurses to check on a 23-year-old woman for two days while she suffered a medical emergency inside an isolated cell, according to a new report from the Department of Correction’s oversight board.

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