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Rikers Island Solitary Confinement

A solitary confinement cell known all as “the bing,” at New York’s Rikers Island jail on Jan. 28, 2016. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)

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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