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A Rikers Island detainee died Wednesday while receiving palliative care at a local hospital, according to the New York City Department of Correction — a day after his attorney said he asked the court to release his client from custody.
Christian Collado, 51, died shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday at Bellevue Hospital’s jail ward, correction officials said. Jail and court records show he had been held since October on charges of burglary, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in connection with an August incident…