‘I cried that whole night’: Families say DOC did little to tell them their loved ones died on Rikers

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‘I cried that whole night’: Families say DOC did little to tell them their loved ones died on Rikers


A City Council bill discussed Friday would define the procedures the DOC and Correctional Health Services – the branch of the city’s hospital system that provides medical care on Rikers Island – should take to notify an incarcerated person’s emergency contacts when that person is seriously injured, hospitalized or attempts suicide.

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Jail programming suffers a year after DOC cut nonprofit contract

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Jail programming suffers a year after DOC cut nonprofit contract

The city’s Department of Correction has continued to struggle to provide re-entry services, educational programs, life skills training and other programs to detainees on Rikers Island a year after the agency cut a contract with half a dozen nonprofits and opted to provide the programming themselves.

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