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WASHINGTON: New York officials on Thursday approved a multi-billion-dollar plan to close the city´s notorious Rikers Island prison and replace the sprawling complex with smaller jails. Rikers is one of America´s most high-profile prisons and has incarcerated celebrities including Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, rapper Tupac Shakur and former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Lawyers and criminologists …

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