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| Rikers Island inmate doesn’t let prison stop him from going on Facebook live, flashing knife |
| By washingtonpost.com- Cleve R. Wootson Jr. |
| Published: 08/03/2016 |
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After decades of being labeled one of the most notorious prisons in the country, Rikers Island in New York has added more cameras and metal detectors to keep better tabs on the murderers, mobsters and terrorists that the prison counts among its 10,000 inmates. So it was troubling for prison officials to see one of those inmates joining the ranks of Chewbacca mom and George Takei — streaming live on Facebook — while locked in his prison cell. “I had to go live,” the inmate with a blurred face says in the post, originally reported by CW affiliate WPIX. “I did everything else.” The inmate recorded the video in late July. He was then released from Rikers before authorities saw the video. In the video, he shows his prison cell, his uniform and some leftover food on a metal plate. But the stream takes a serious tone when the man pulls out a jail-made knife. Read More. |
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