Six women claim a physician assistant at New York City’s notorious jail pressured them to exchange sexual favors for prescriptions, cigarettes and candy.

A New York study of 45,000 inmates shows that blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to be punished with solitary confinement, and less likely to receive diagnoses of mental illness.

Jackie Caquias died last June in Rikers custody. Her death fits into a pattern of medical lapses that are endangering women’s lives at New York’s most notorious jail.