Mentally Ill Rikers Island Inmate Died After 7 Days Alone in Cell
Taylor Berman · 05/22/14 09:40AMLast September, a mentally ill Rikers Island inmate died after he'd been locked alone in his prison cell for seven days. By the time prison staff took him to a hospital, Bradley Ballard, who was schizophrenic, was naked and covered in his own feces, with a rubber band tied around his infected genitals.