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    How a Rikers Unit That Protects Trans Women Fell ApartA decade ago, New York set out to lead the nation in efforts to support incarcerated trans people. Now they are stranded in all-male housing units.
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    ‘I Know That I’m Living This Cinderella Life’The city’s closure of emergency hotels leaves former inmates scrambling to find housing by the New Year.
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    Rikers Guards, Newly Emboldened by Adams, Are Punishing Inmates Who Speak OutAs conditions deteriorate, Adams’s recent decisions only worsen the understaffing problem.
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    What’s Going to Happen to All the Art on Rikers?Faith Ringgold’s mural is heading to the Brooklyn Museum, but it’s not clear where the rest will go.
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    Dispatch From Deadly Rikers Island: “It Looks Like a Slave Ship in There.”Detainees, correction officers and officials talk about the jail’s new state of emergency.
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    What It’s Like at Rikers, According to People Who Just Got Out“They’re not feeding people, there’s no water, no showers, no phone calls.”
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    Barbara Kavovit’s Plan for Rikers Sounds Uncomfortably Like an Internment CampA colony for the homeless, isolated on an island in the East River.