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Director Donald L. Isaac Sr. told the council that his group, an independent body tasked with oversight of the jail, has not inspected the Central Detention Facility or Central Cellblock since May.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2022

Three of the prisoners were carried out of barricaded Cellblock L on stretchers; three used crutches.

From Washington Times • Apr. 10, 2018

Watch out for the boys in Cellblock D. They may appear less threatening than some of the other Attica prison inmates in the tumultuous year of 1971.

From New York Times • May 5, 2015

This was the case on the night of Dec. 17, 2012, when an inmate flooded Cellblock 13B, a solitary confinement unit in the George R. Vierno Center at Rikers.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2014