I&#x27;m not familiar with this particular case, but there are people who get completely lost in the Rikers island prison system.<p>This actually almost happened to me, though not at Rikers island: I was arrested under a false accusation of a crime I didn&#x27;t commit, and while I was supposed to have been released after an hour, there was some mess up where they thought I&#x27;d already been released and so kept me in there for around an extra 12 hours. It only even got fixed that fast because my lawyer made a huge deal out of it.<p>Now imagine the same thing happening, but without a good advocate on your side, in a much larger prison, and ongoing for years or decades instead of just half a day.