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Rikers inmates riot after being sent to bed with no TV
By nypost.com- Dana Sauchelli, Jamie Schram and Natalie O'Neill
Published: 08/13/2014

Hardened criminals at Rikers Island were so furious about a bedtime crackdown that forced them to miss their favorite Monday night TV shows, they erupted into a riot Monday night — forcing guards to blast them with pepper spray, Department of Corrections sources told The Post.

On the first night the new 9 p.m. bedtime was enforced, 68 jailbirds in a “high security” wing of the jail went berserk — lashing out at guards and refusing to enter their cells, the sources said.

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