New York City has agreed to pay the family of Layleen Polanco – the trans-Afro-Latina who died while in solitary confinement at Rikers Island last year – a record $5.9 million. The settlement is reportedly the largest ever for the death of an inmate in a New York City jail. Polanco, who was held on...

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