‘Losing my mind’: New York prisons are holding people in rooms with no running water

A door from a detention center or a prison being opened by a correctional officer.

In late May, guards at Green Haven Correctional Facility, in Dutchess County, locked Rahkeem Brown in a room in the prison’s medical unit. The room had a mattress on the floor and resembled a cell, he said, but its sole window didn’t open, and there was no running water.

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