Anytime someone dies inside a city jail, the agency in charge of medical care launches a comprehensive review of what happened, with an eye toward preventing future detainee deaths.
But the morbidity and mortality reports conducted by Correctional Health Services are never made public, and their “corrective action” recommendations are rarely shared with anyone outside of city government.
Eight people have died behind bars this year so far, including three at the George R. Vierno Center, one of eight jails on Rikers Island. In 2022, city jails saw 19 deaths — the highest number in decades. “We have historical levels of violence and death on Rikers,” Rivera told THE CITY. “And it’s critical that the Council leverage its [city] charter-mandated oversight responsibilities to require transparency and accountability at every opportunity.”
But the DOC press team never included the name of the person who died without first notifying that person’s next of kin. For each death, the Commission of Correction took an average of nearly two and a half years to complete its probes,Critics say reporting delays have made it impossible to identify trends while they are happening. The majority of deaths the commission examines occur in state prisons, records show.
“Current leadership made little progress on persistent issues of jail conditions, forcing me to conclude that the City of New York is unwilling or unable to address the humanitarian and safety issues at Rikers,” said city Comptroller Brad Lander, whose office publishesIn one case, Dashawn Carter missed 92 medical appointments during his three stints in jail dating back to 2018,The 25-year-old Staten Islander, who suffered from mental illness and was homeless, took his own life inside a housing...
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