Correctional officers on Rikers Island refused to allow nurses to check on a 23-year-old woman for two days while she suffered a medical emergency inside an isolated cell, according to a new report from the Department of Correction’s oversight board.
Read MoreThe family of Charizma Jones, a 23-year-old woman who died after allegedly being denied medical care on Rikers Island, plans to sue the city for $50 million.
Read MoreMultiple city agencies failed to help a man suffering from a mental health crisis in the lead up to his death on Rikers Island in 2022, an amended wrongful death lawsuit claims.
Read MoreA new filing in a wrongful death lawsuit claims that the city’s Department of Correction falsely claimed in records that they acted quickly to provide Narcan to a 26-year-old dying of an overdose on Rikers Island in 2022 when instead it was the man’s brother, coincidently being held in the cell next door, who attempted to revive his sibling just before he died.
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