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Rikers Island Facebook photo leads to official investigation
By metro.us
Published: 05/24/2016

The Department of Corrections is investigating how a photo of Rikers Island inmates flashing gang signs was posted on Facebook when inmates are banned from having cellphones.

The photo, posted to Facebook last Wednesday, shows a group of inmates in the back of a DOC van during a transport to Staten Island, the New York Daily News reported. It was posted to an account of a Facebook user believed to be an acquaintance of convict Rameen Smith, who was in the van at the time but is not pictured.

At issue was the apparent use of a cellphone, which are off-limits to inmates though at least 10 were found in city jails last year, the Daily News stated.

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