the city: death of two men at rikers — one held on shoplifting rap — amplifies push to overhaul parole rules
By Reuven Blau | via The City Two men locked up on low-level arrests that violated their parole — one of them a new father jailed for allegedly shoplifting — recently died behind bars on Rikers Island, THE CITY has learned. News of the deaths of Thomas Braunson III, 35, on April 19, and 45-year-old Richard […]
