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De Blasio Setting Up a Test: Prison Reformer vs. Rikers Island

Joseph Ponte, New York’s newly appointed correction commissioner, and his wife were visiting the city two weeks ago, and while she went apartment hunting, he had a few hours free. He dropped by Rikers Island to have a look at the jail block where a mentally ill inmate died this year, left unattended in a stiflingly hot cell. [read the full story here]

New York Times, Saturday, April 5, 2014
Tags: Correctional Policy & Decision-Making, New York
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