Correction officers routinely lock severely mentally ill men in their cells on Rikers Island for weeks and even months in violation of city law, a jail social worker who left the system three weeks ago tells the Daily News in an exclusive interview.
Mentally ill at Rikers often locked in cells for weeks, denied treatment: Exclusive
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