Monitor says Rikers is getting worse as detainee becomes 9th to die this year

Monitor says Rikers is getting worse as detainee becomes 9th to die this year

On the same day a 27-year-old man became the ninth person to die in Department of Correction custody this year, the federal monitor tracking conditions on Rikers Island said reforming the notorious jail complex is a prospect that is “falling even further out of reach.”

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