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CORRECTS YEAR OF BALLARD'S DEATH TO 2013, INSTEAD OF 2014 - This 1990 photo provided by Curtis Griffin of his step-son Bradley Ballard shows Ballard in Houston when he was 16. In September of 2013, 39-year-old Ballard, who was mentally ill and an inmate at the Rikers Island jail in New York, died there after being locked alone in his cell for seven days. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show Ballard was checked on dozens of times in his cell before he was rushed to a hospital, where he died hours later. Ballard, found naked, covered in feces with a rubber band tied around his badly infected genitals, was jailed in a similar mental health unit at Rikers Island where another mentally ill inmate died in a 101-degree cell in February. (AP Photo/Curtis Griffin)
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FILE - In this May 17, 2011 file photo, a section of the Rikers Island prison is seen in New York. In September 2013, a mentally ill New York City inmate named Bradley Ballard died after he was found in his Rikers Island cell naked and covered in feces, with a rubber band tied around his badly infected genitals, after being locked alone in his cell for seven days. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show 39-year-old Bradley Ballard was checked on dozens of times in his cell in September before he was rushed to a hospital. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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This 1990 photo provided by Curtis Griffin of his step-son Bradley Ballard shows Ballard in Houston when he was 16. In September of 2014, 39-year-old Ballard, who was mentally ill and an inmate at the Rikers Island jail in New York, died a gruesome death there after being locked alone in his cell for seven days. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show Ballard was checked on dozens of times in his cell before he was rushed to a hospital, where he died hours later. Ballard, found naked, covered in feces with a rubber band tied around his badly infected genitals, was jailed in a similar mental health unit at Rikers Island where another mentally ill inmate died in a 101-degree cell in February. (AP Photo/Curtis Griffin)
