New York City to end solitary confinement for teens at Rikers jail

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New York City to end solitary confinement for teens at Rikers jail

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/york-city-end-solitary-confinement-teens-rikers-jail-193758745.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/OeBqd7mMd31U0qEChtIQbQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9Njk7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-09-29T193758Z_1_LYNXNPEA8S0W0_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN-POLITICS-LABOUR.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="New York's Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at Britain's opposition Labour Party's conference in Manchester" align="left" title="New York's Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at Britain's opposition Labour Party's conference in Manchester" border="0" /></a>By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City plans to end the use of solitary confinement to punish teenage inmates at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex by the end of the year, according to a Department of Correction memorandum. The policy shift comes less than two months after the U.S. Department of Justice said its investigators had found a pattern of abuse of 16- and 17-year-old inmates that breached their constitutional rights. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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