
Rikers Island guards took bribes, smuggled contraband: officials
NEW YORK — In another blemish on New York City’s troubled jail system, two Rikers Island correction officers and a cook accepted bribes from inmates to smuggle in contraband such as scalpels, synthetic marijuana and tobacco.
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