Rikers Island
NYC jail staff obstructed medics, delaying treatment for 23-year-old woman who later died, report finds
City correction officers repeatedly blocked medical staff from providing care to Charizma Jones, a severely ill woman held at Rikers Island in New York, weeks before she fell into a coma and died of apparent organ failure, according to findings from a jail oversight board. Jones, 23, was being treated for a possible case of…
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‘We broke bread with the brothers’: Jadakiss visits inmates on Rikers Island where Lil Wayne was held
Rapper Jadakiss recently visited New York City’s Rikers Island to show support to inmates...
