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Twelfth Death on Rikers Raises Heat on Federal Judge Set to Assign Manager

Barbed wire fencing surrounded the concrete George Vierno Center on Rikers Island.

As a federal judge contemplates who to assign to take over managing Rikers Island, a Staten Island man has become the 12th person to die in a city jail this year — as he waited more than two months to be transferred upstate.  Carlos Cruz, 43, was found experiencing what appeared to be a seizure […]

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