Why is New York City building a jail skyscraper?
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New York is building a jail taller than the Statue of Liberty in the middle of downtown Manhattan. It's the centrepiece of a $16bn plan to replace the notorious Rikers Island complex. But can better architecture really fix one of America's most violent jail systems?
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