Rikers deaths continue to mount
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The Department of Correction’s death toll continued to climb at a rapid rate this week after a 27-year-old died on Rikers Island on Monday night after allegedly suffering from a medical emergency.
Read MoreWoman becomes fourth Rikers detainee to die in 2025
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A 55-year-old woman was allegedly found dead inside her cell on Rikers Island early Thursday morning, marking the fourth time in a month – and the second time in a week – that a Rikers detainee has died.
Read More‘Ignored at every turn’: Family of woman who died after allegedly being denied care on Rikers to sue city
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The 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 MoreTwo years after man hanged himself on Rikers, family says city failed him
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Multiple 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 MoreRikers detainee dies of alleged medical emergency
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A man being held on Rikers Island died on Tuesday in a Queens hospital after suffering an apparent medical emergency.
Read More‘Insult on top of injury’: Attys claim DOC falsified records about Rikers detainee’s death
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A 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.
Read MoreFamily seeks answers about son’s death on Rikers
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The family of a Bayside man who died on Rikers Island last year is suing the city’s Department of Correction after the agency allegedly wrongly withheld information about the man’s death.
Read MoreFamily of man who died after Rikers Island detention sues city for $100 million
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The family of a 31-year-old man whose death in Department of Correction custody remains disputed over a year after it happened recently filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city.
Read MoreBayside man dies at Rikers Island
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For the eighth time this year, a person being held in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction has died.
Read MoreDetainee dies, marking second Rikers death of the year
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A 52-year-old Rikers Island detainee died in a Queens hospital on Tuesday, several days after he was severely injured inside the jail.
Read MoreRikers death toll climbs after 39-year-old found dead
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A 39-year-old man being held pre-trial on Rikers Island was found dead in the cell he was being held in on Sunday evening, marking the 19th time a person in Department of Correction custody has died this year.
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