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The city is preparing to move dozens of troubled teens off Rikers Island this fall, but the new Bronx detention facility in which they’ll be housed will in some ways be even more restrictive than jail.
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Michael Engleman, chief marketing officer for TBS and TNT, presided over a string of remarkable community outreach initiatives on behalf of the new TBS dramedy The Last O.G., which debuted in April to ratings records for the network. The initiatives included a comedy fundraiser emceed by Morgan and co-star Cedric the Entertainer that benefited the Fortune Society.
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Michael Engleman, chief marketing officer for TBS and TNT, has presided over a string of remarkable community outreach initiatives on behalf of the new TBS dramedy The Last O.G., which debuted in April to ratings records for the network.
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The first part of the plan is clear: the jails on Rikers Island will be closed. Less clear is the second part: what, exactly, the replacement jails will look like.
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The city has banned solitary confinement for individuals under 22. Yet late Monday the mayor defended the city’s practice of “occasionally” sending [individuals] who pose a security or safety risk to county jails where they can be held in solitary confinement. Defense lawyers, advocates and some elected officials continued to criticize the practice, calling it an end-run around the city’s ban.
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