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Kalief Browder, 22-year-old New Yorker who spent nearly three years at the infamous Rikers Island jail without being convicted of a crime, committed suicide Saturday, June 6, 2015, after a long battle with depression. (ABC 7)
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CORRECTS YEAR OF BALLARD'S DEATH TO 2013, INSTEAD OF 2014 - This 1990 photo provided by Curtis Griffin of his step-son Bradley Ballard shows Ballard in Houston when he was 16. In September of 2013, 39-year-old Ballard, who was mentally ill and an inmate at the Rikers Island jail in New York, died there after being locked alone in his cell for seven days. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show Ballard was checked on dozens of times in his cell before he was rushed to a hospital, where he died hours later. Ballard, found naked, covered in feces with a rubber band tied around his badly infected genitals, was jailed in a similar mental health unit at Rikers Island where another mentally ill inmate died in a 101-degree cell in February. (AP Photo/Curtis Griffin)
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This December 15, 2010 photo provided by the New York State Department of Correctional Services shows Bradley Ballard in New York. In September of 2014, Ballard, 39, who was mentally ill and an inmate at the Rikers Island jail in New York, died a gruesome death there after being locked alone in his cell for seven days. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show Ballard was checked on dozens of times in his cell before he was rushed to a hospital, where he died hours later. Ballard, found naked, covered in feces with a rubber band tied around his badly infected genitals, was jailed in a similar mental health unit at Rikers Island where another mentally ill inmate died in a 101-degree cell in February. (AP Photo/New York State Department of Correctional Services)
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This 1990 photo provided by Curtis Griffin of his step-son Bradley Ballard shows Ballard in Houston when he was 16. In September of 2014, 39-year-old Ballard, who was mentally ill and an inmate at the Rikers Island jail in New York, died a gruesome death there after being locked alone in his cell for seven days. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show Ballard was checked on dozens of times in his cell before he was rushed to a hospital, where he died hours later. Ballard, found naked, covered in feces with a rubber band tied around his badly infected genitals, was jailed in a similar mental health unit at Rikers Island where another mentally ill inmate died in a 101-degree cell in February. (AP Photo/Curtis Griffin)
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FILE - In this May 17, 2011, file photo, a man walks near the sign at the entrance to the Rikers Island jail in New York. Jerome Murdough, a 56-year-old mentally ill inmate at Rikers Island jail, "baked" to death in his overheated cell during one of the coldest recorded winters in city history. The mother of a mentally ill, homeless veteran who was found dead in a one-hundred-degree New York City jail cell plans to file a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit. Family attorney Derek Sells says he’ll ask the city to preserve all communications and 911 recordings regarding Jerome Murdough’s death on Rikers Island at a press conference Friday May 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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FILE - In this May 17, 2011, file photo, a man walks near the sign at the entrance to the Rikers Island jail in New York. Jerome Murdough, a 56-year-old mentally ill inmate at Rikers Island jail, "baked" to death in his overheated cell during one of the coldest recorded winters in city history. According to documents obtained by The Associated Press, jail officials were aware of malfunctioning heating equipment and requested repairs the last day Murdough was seen alive, but the needed work didn't happen until it was too late because of a long holiday weekend.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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FILE - In this May 17, 2011 file photo, a man walks near the sign at the entrance to the Rikers Island jail in New York. According to a Thursday, April 3, 2014, statement by the New York City Department of Corrections, Rose Argo, the warden of the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island, has been demoted and transferred to another unit that doesn't house mentally ill inmates. In February 2014, a homeless, mentally ill veteran "baked to death" in an overheated cell at the facility. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Nikos Alexis loads fresh dough into an oven at the Rikers Island jail bakery earlier this month in New York. Alexis is part of a team of 20 inmates that bakes 36,000 loaves of bread weekly to feed the nation's largest jail complex.
