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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