Mental illness and missed medical appointments: Board of Correction issues report on Rikers deaths during second half of last year

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Mental illness and missed medical appointments: Board of Correction issues report on Rikers deaths during second half of last year

Nearly all of the four men who died on Rikers Island in the second half of last year entered the troubled jail complex with mental health and addiction issues, and failed to receive regular medical care or adequate supervision from the Department of Correction, a new report from the Board of Correction found.

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Monitor says Rikers is getting worse as detainee becomes 9th to die this year

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Monitor says Rikers is getting worse as detainee becomes 9th to die this year

On the same day a 27-year-old man became the ninth person to die in Department of Correction custody this year, the federal monitor tracking conditions on Rikers Island said reforming the notorious jail complex is a prospect that is “falling even further out of reach.”

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