Por: Edwin Martínez, Actualizado 27 Oct 2022
Justo cuando crecen las voces en Nueva York para que pronto se cierre la cárcel de Rikers Island, donde 17 presos, entre ellos varios latinos, han muerto bajo custodia de las autoridades penitenciarias, legisladoras de la Gran Manzana están impulsando un proyecto de ley que busca reducir
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New York Daily News, October 25, 2022
Correction Department staffers aren’t scanned for contraband when they go to work at Rikers Island and other lockup — and City Council members asked Tuesday if that has something to do with a series of fatal drug overdoses in the jails over the last two years.
Nine of the 33 deaths in the jails since Jan.
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by Courtney Gross, October 25, 2022
“It feels so unfair,” Amariliz Torres Tavira said through tears. “Not just for my family, but for everyone else that’s a part of this.”
This is the family of Erick Tavira.
The 28-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Saturday. It’s a suspected suicide and the 17th death of someone in custody or recently released from custody this year.
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