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U.S. Attorney: It’s Criminal the Way Adolescents Are Treated At Rikers

By MARK TOOR
Posted 8/11/14

Ratcheting up the pressure on the beleaguered Department of Correction, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara last week said that Rikers Island inmates ages 16 to 18 are at risk of harm from both correction officers and other inmates and that the city needs to do something about it.

‘Rikers is Broken’

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