‘Morally repugnant’: Guards stopped sick detainee from seeing doctors prior to her death, report says

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‘Morally repugnant’: Guards stopped sick detainee from seeing doctors prior to her death, report says

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.

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Again, man dies while under DOC watch on Rikers Island

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Again, man dies while under DOC watch on Rikers Island

A detained man hanged himself inside a staff bathroom on Rikers Island on Wednesday morning, marking the 14th time this year an incarcerated person has died while under the watch of the officers and officials charged with running the city’s failing jail complex.

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