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FILE - In this May 17, 2011 file photo, a New York City Department of Corrections bus passes the sign near the gate at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York. Four correctional officers at Rikers Island jail have been suspended without pay after they allegedly stood by and failed to stop a teenage inmate from hanging himself on Thanksgiving, leaving him hospitalized in intensive care. Nicholas Feliciano, 18, remained unconscious in a hospital prison ward Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 a week after he nearly died in his Rikers Island jail cell, according to the Legal Aid Society, the public defender organization that represents him in court. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

6 guards, 15 others charged in Rikers Island bribery case

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FILE - In this March 12, 2014 file photo, a picture of Jerome Murdough is held by his mother Alma Murdough left, and sister Cheryl Warner at Alma Murdough's home in the Queens borough of New York. The homeless former Marine died in February, 2014 in a Rikers Island jail cell that multiple city officials say was at least 100 degrees when his body was discovered. The city on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014 reached a $2.25 million settlement with Alma Murdough. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

$2.25M deal reached in hot NYC jail cell death

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Rikers Island fight night: Brawl at NYC jail injures guards, inmates

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