NEW YORK — Nestor Hernandez, arrested on an assault charge, says he sat in a fetid Rikers Island intake cell for four days before his father posted his bail.
And then it took another 16 hours before he was freed, says Hernandez, one of three detainees who sued the city in Manhattan federal court claiming they were subjected in the fall of 2021 to appalling dangerous conditions in unstaffed intake cells with minimal security — and then held longer than they should have been.
Hernandez, 40, of Brooklyn, is diabetic and had no access to insulin during his ordeal because there was no one to take him to the medical clinic.
