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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)

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