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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Fourth inmate dies at Rikers Island as deadline to fix crisis-plagued NYC prison looms

Associated Press

A 25-year-old homeless man died in an apparent suicide at Rikers Island on Saturday, just two days after being returned to the troubled New York prison from a psychiatric hospital.

DaShawn Carter was found dead in his cell at the Anna M. Kross Center just after 5pm, the fourth inmate to die at Rikers this year. Two died in the space of a few days in March.

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