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NYC jails add restrictive housing units, limit solitary
NYC jails add restrictive housing units, limit solitary
NYC jails add restrictive housing units, limit solitary
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York City jail oversight board voted unanimously Tuesday to create restrictive housing units at Rikers Island for violent inmates, to limit guards' longstanding practice of placing inmates in solitary confinement for breaking jailhouse rules and to ban 23-hour confinement altogether for inmates younger than 21 by next year.
Mentally Ill Inmate Died After 7 Days in NYC Jail Cell
Mentally Ill Inmate Died After 7 Days in NYC Jail Cell
Mentally Ill Inmate Died After 7 Days in NYC Jail Cell
After a mentally ill Bradley Ballard made a lewd gesture to a female guard at the Rikers Island jail, he was locked in his cell alone for seven increasingly agitated days in which he was denied some of his medication, clogged his toilet so that it overflowed, stripped off his clothes and tied a rubber band tightly around his genitals.