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Ervin Bowins, who helped lead the hunger strike beginning Jan. 7 in the Robert N. Davoren Center, faced a “campaign of retaliation” along with other inmates who joined the protest, Stan German, executive director of New York County Defenders Services, wrote.
Dr. Victoria A Phillips, left, co-chair of the NYC Dept. of Correction Young Adult Task Force, demonstrates during a rally to protest the conditions
“This is very important. Right now my unit, we’re on a hunger strike,” Rikers detainee Ervin Bowins said in a voicemail. “We have a list of reasonable things that we would like to get on the table so we can get things rolling."