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Inmate Nadine Leach, 43, right, visits with her grandchildren and daughter Lashawna Jones, 27, in the newly opened preschool play and learn visitation hub in the Rose M. Singer Center at the Rikers Island jail complex in the Bronx borough of New York, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. NEW YORK — It's probably the last place a mom wants to spend Mother's Day with her kids.
One interactive wall display shows a map of the city’s five boroughs. Buttons below trigger city sounds, like the screech of a subway. To get to the facility, families take a bus, go through security and drug screenings, and pass by walls with six layers of razer wire. Outside the new play center, a sign on blue cinderblock reads, “Inmates are permitted to hold their children during the visit.”
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie, commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, cut a giant green ceremonial ribbon to open the room.
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