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People inside prisons report that infections are ongoing even though precautions and testing have fallen by the wayside.

City Council Considers Ending Solitary Confinement In NYC Jails arrow A security fence at Rikers Island in October 2017. Bebeto Matthews/AP/Shutterstock The City Council is set to hear a bill on Friday that would end solitary confinement in NYC jails as criminal justice advocates say the de Blasio administration is lagging on its own plan to do so. Queens City Councilmember Danny Dromms measure would ban locking someone in a cell alone as punishment for a violent offense...