sadele2“Barry Cozart’s death comes as Rikers Island enters the supervision of a court-appointed remediation manager with wide-ranging authority to make changes at the complex, which for years has been beset with dysfunction and violence. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pledged to work with the manager to improve conditions at Rikers — with the goal of ultimately shuttering the jails and replacing them with smaller, borough-based facilities.”
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