A New York Jail Let A Homeless Man ‘Bake To Death’

Jerome Murdough was just looking for a warm place to sleep on a
chilly night last month when he curled up in an enclosed stairwell
on the roof of a Harlem public housing project where he was
arrested for trespassing.

A week later, the mentally ill homeless man was found dead in a
Rikers Island jail cell that four city officials say had overheated
to at least 100 degrees, apparently because of malfunctioning
equipment.

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