Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images By Rayna Reid ·Updated January 13, 2022
Hundreds of Rikers Island inmates are on a hunger strike, “protesting conditions such as lack of medical care and access to other services that have persisted since last year due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic and a lack of staffing at city jails.”
The protest began on Saturday, and one detainee, Nelson Pinero, said “’It just