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Rikers Island detainees shackled to desks during classroom sessions; NYC jail oversight board not consulted on rule change

Dozens of detainees in three Rikers housing units are sometimes shackled in restraint desks, correction sources told the Daily News. The specially-built metal desks are used to restrain “potentially disruptive inmates during therapeutic, educational, programming, and/or recreational sessions in a classroom setting,” the department says. ....

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