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Topic: Rikers Island

Jimmy Kimmel hosting "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" (Disney/Randy Holmes)

Kimmel: Trump can watch Oscars from jail

Gabriella Ferrigine
Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Will Trump be in jail by 2023?

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
FILE - In this this June 20, 2014, file photo, the Rikers Island jail complex stands in the foreground with the New York skyline in the background. Inmate activists, for more than a year, have argued that shutting down the sprawling, 10-jail complex in the East River is the only solution for a cycle of abuses that include violence by guards and gang members, mistreatment of the mentally ill and juveniles, and unjustly long detention for minor offenders. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (AP)

Violence soared at Rikers under McKinsey

Ian MacDougall - ProPublica
In this May 17, 2011, file photo, a New York City Department of Corrections bus passes the sign near the gate at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Not the end of the fight

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
(Getty/Spencer Platt)

Rikers Island, a stain on New York

Peter Kaldheim
Paul Manafort (Getty/Alex Wong)

Manafort no longer headed to Rikers

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
Paul Manafort (Getty/Drew Angerer)

How Manafort will avoid Rikers Island

Shira Tarlo
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Paul Manafort (AP/Seth Wenig/Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

AOC: Manafort shouldn't be in solitary

Shira Tarlo
"Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York" by Stacy Horn (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

A history of asylum horrors, on repeat

Mary Elizabeth Williams

New film series: "We Are Witnesses"

Rachel Leah
FILE - In a June 20, 2014, file photo, the Rikers Island jail complex stands in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday, March 31, 2017, that he's developing a plan to shut down the massive jail within 10 years. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (AP)

Trouble on Rikers Island

Joaquin Sapien - ProPublica

Poetry Inspires kids in jail

D. Watkins

Shut down Rikers Island

D. Watkins

The Kalief Browder Story

D. Watkins
(AP/Ted S. Warren)

Horrors I saw in solitary

Mary E. Buser
Bill de Blasio (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

Terrell Jermaine Starr - Alternet
Bill de Blasio holds a news conference on Rikers Island, March 12, 2015. (AP/Seth Wenig)

"There has to be a change"

Elias Isquith
Kalief Browder (ABC News)

Stop prolonged isolation — now

Elias Isquith
Rikers Island from above (Wikimedia)

Jenny Kutner
(istockphoto allanswart)

Jake Pearson - The Associated Press
(Shutterstock)

Natasha Lennard
Rikers Island from above (Wikimedia)

Natasha Lennard
Rikers Island from above (Wikimedia)

Natasha Lennard
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