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b"On this week's show we spoke with:\\n\\n\\u2014Madeline Feliciano, Nicholas Feliciano's grandmother Joshua Carmoega, Nicholas\\u2019s uncle, and David Rankin, who is representing them in a lawsuit against the city. In December 2019, Nicholas Feliciano attempted to kill himself and was visibly hanging in his cell for 7-odd minutes before anyone did anything to help him get down. The Board of Corrections just released a report on the incident stating, \\u201cthe circumstances of this incident are disturbing and starkly illustrate persistent issues in the City\\u2019s jails.\\u201d \\n\\n\\u2014Writer and researcher Matt Thomas, the author of the Vulgar Marxist substack and a keen observer of the workings of the judicial machinery here in New York. After steadily trending downward for many years, the population of incarcerated persons at Rikers Island is once again rising even though the majority of detainees have not had a trial. This is due in part to the role of law-and-order judges and the politicians who help them rise through the judicial ranks. \\n\\n\\u2014Felicia Singh, D32 Candidate: On Nov. 3rd NYers return to the polls for city elections. The District 32 race in Queens is the last Republican-held district in Queens. The Republican candidate, Joann Ariola, is facing a strong challenge from Felicia Singh, a teacher, educator, daughter of working-class immigrants who ran as a proud progressive in June, presenting a dichotomy in a part of Queens that was solidly conservative in the past."