Rikers Island is home to a surge of mentally ill inmates, hundreds of them assigned to live in isolation. Did the city miss a chance for better treatment?
Rikers
Sanction an unusual development in legal battle over inmate-on-inmate brutality at a Rikers Island detention facility for juveniles
Last year, corrections officers at the Robert N. Davoren Youth Center wrote up 1,722 fights, in a facility that holds only about 600 inmates
