New York City Rikers Island inmate tries to hang himself during politician tour of ‘hellish’ facility
A new-york-city” target=”_blank”>Rikers Island< in front of an Assembly member and a us-regions Monday during a chaotic tour of the out-of-control crime. Assemblymember Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas (D-Queens), who visited Rikers Island Monday morning alongside more than a dozen state and local elected officials, was inside the punitive segregation unit at the packed Otis Bantum Correctional Center…