All posts tagged "rikers island"

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  17 Rikers Workers to Be Disciplined for Transgender Woman’s Death in Solitary

  The New York City Department of Corrections will discipline 17 officers for their conduct surrounding the death of 27-year-old Layleen Polanco, a...

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  Trans Woman Who Died at Rikers Created Chain Reaction of Kindness, Friends Say

  The first time Christina Vengerovsky met Layleen Cubilette-Polanco was on Christopher Street in the summer of 2010. Her friends had been talking...

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  Families of Inmates: A Photographer’s Focus at Rikers Island

  Every day an estimated 1,500 family members and friends of those incarcerated on New York’s Rikers Island visit their loved ones. For...