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Rikers Island Solitary Confinement

Rikers Island and its solitary-confinement cells when the prison was new on May 23, 1935, slated to replace Welfare Island. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

New York City officials have unveiled reforms they claim add up to a groundbreaking ban on solitary confinement on Rikers Island.

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