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‘Losing my mind’: New York prisons are holding people in rooms with no running water

‘Losing my mind’: New York prisons are holding people in rooms with no running water
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In late May, guards at Green Haven Correctional Facility, in Dutchess County, locked Rahkeem Brown in a room in the prison’s medical unit. The room had a mattress on the floor and resembled a cell, he said, but its sole window didn’t open, and there was no running water. The guards had accused Br...

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