Rikers Island once called—“The City’s Island of the Damned” —was born in tragedy and scandal. Severe overcrowding and a spate of riots and legal battles across the jail’s first 45 years of existence led the city to try to get rid it and replace it with eight smaller detention centers across the boroughs in the late 1970s and 1980s. More @Wikipedia
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