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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, September 30th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

The first jail on Rikers Island was opened in 1932, and the complex has since expanded to include

10 jails holding thousands of inmates every day.

It is known as one of the country's most brutal detention facilities.

Violence among inmates is common,

and there continue to be accusations of mistreatment, neglect, and abuse by corrections officers

and the jail's administrators.

In 2014, the New Yorker reported on the story of Khalif Browder, who was arrested as a teenager,

held at Rikers without trial for three years, and spent much of that time in solitary confinement.

Browder committed suicide in 2015. Despite promises by city and state officials

to reform Rikers, this year alone 12 people held there have died, two in the last week, and at least

five by suicide. On September 13th, a group of officials toured Rikers. At a press conference

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