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90-year-old Darnell Davis retires from Rikers Island after almost 30 years

The New York City Department of Corrections today honored a 90-year-old Co-op City man retiring from Rikers Island. Darnell Davis was a commissary manager at the prison for 29 years. "Pops," as he

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