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About 650 Detainees Have Been Released From City Jails

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 3/25/20

More than 650 inmates have so far been released from Rikers Island and other city facilities, Mayor de Blasio said March 29, as officials contended with what appeared to be a significant infection rate of coronavirus within city jails.

Roughly 400 of those were among the 1,100 low-risk parole violators ordered released by Governor Cuomo March 27.

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