NEW YORK — A staff shortage at Rikers Island jail left two units without corrections officers for more than 24 hours Tuesday and Wednesday, a prisoner reported — and a city oversight board said the ongoing personnel problems factored in a wave of suicides in the jails since December. Two Rikers units — known as 3 West and 3 North in the Otis Bantum Correction Center — were without corrections …
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Rikers inmates forced to run cells as units go more than 24 hours without guards, prisoner says
