More than four years after the death of a transgender woman in solitary on Rikers Island galvanized the nation, the City Council Wednesday passed legislation to strictly limit the use of the punishment that the United Nations has deemed torture.  The 39 to 7 vote, with one abstention, is the culmination of even longer years […]

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