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Cuomo backs replacing Rikers Island with modern NYC jail

(AP) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Rikers Island is dangerous and dated and should be replaced with a modern and safer jail for New York City. The governor says in an interview Tuesday that the jail built

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Feb 17, 2016, 12:26 PM

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