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While a 29-year-old detainee with severe mental illness was on the brink of death in his Rikers Island cell last month, a medical staffer stood outside his door spraying air freshener, according to an oversight report obtained by THE CITY.

The striking detail appears in the Board of Correction’s initial review of Ardit Billa’s August 23 death inside the George R. Vierno Center. The case has already led to the suspension of two correction officers for four weeks for failing to conduct mandated routine checks and allegedly falsifying an internal logbook en

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