While New York City had to pay $200,000 in fines because its Correction Department hasn’t gotten thousands of prisoners to medical appointments, the department recently threw a lavish retirement party at the notoriously embattled Rikers Island jail complex.
So far this year, 11 detainees have died in custody and a judge recently ordered the city to pay the large fine in a class action lawsuit after Correction Department officials didn’t “substantially comply” with a judge’s order to get prisoners to doctors appointment.
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