So far this year, thirteen people have passed away, putting us on track to break the eight-year high set last year. In 2022, 13 People Died in New York City Jails. Michael Nieves was taken off life support one week following a suicide attempt. He was in a psychiatric critical care unit for mental illness. Punished caption and two cops after footage showed they ignored his injuries for 10 minutes. Let’s see why 13 People Have Died in New York City Jails.
Rikers Island, New York City’s vast eight-prison complex and the country’s most extensive rail system, is a well-documented humanitarian disaster; nonetheless, judges and prosecutors continue to send inmates there while they await trial. Th4,951 inmates were waiting for inhumane conditions for their day in court as of August 31, 2022, in New York City. Out of that number, 1,178 had been waiting for trial for almost a year.
A government observer has observed a “pervasive degree of disarray and anarchy” on Rikers Island. Those there compare it to a torture chamber since everything inside serves to humiliate and demean inmates. In New York City’s prisons, 16 individuals passed away last year.
The death penalty should never be a possible outcome while awaiting court. Everyndividual who passed away in New York City’s prisons this year was a unique human being who deserved to be treated with respect and decency.
Here is the List of Dead Ones
The theatric facility just passed away. His Legal Aid Society lawyers said, “Their continual decisions to send individuals into unsafe settings, and failure to address the core causes of that risk, amount to a reluctance to acknowledge our clients as human beings.”
On August 15, 68-year-old Ricardo Cruciani took his own life at Rikers Island. Since July 29, he has been detained in the correctional facility.
A week after his suicide attempt, Michael Nieves, 40, had his life support turned off. Because of his severe mental disorder, he was hospitalized and placed in a psychiatric facility. After video evidence showed that it took at least 10 minutes for the captain and two police officers to attend to his injuries, they were suspended.
- Tarz Youngblood – Age 38, was a proud papa of three. A lack of supervision in the hours leading up to his death suggests that corrections personnel were not present at the facility. Four inmates dragged him out of the cell where he had been discovered unconscious. They gave him the help he needed, but he passed away. A forensic social worker with New York County Defender Services, Taylor Garzone, has referred to Youngblood as “a compassionate and well-intentioned man.
- “George Pagan – 49-year-old male detained at Rikers Island after failing to post $1,000 bail. According to sources, he spent his days sick in bed or on the floor, and he ate very little. The last six days of his life were marred by the fact that he was neither taken to any of his nine planned medical visits nor given any of the medication he had been recommended.
- Herman Diaz – Choking to death on an orange at the age of 52. Inmates tried to help, but none of them knew how to do the Heimlich maneuver. No prison officers responded to their calls for assistance. Eddie Diaz, the victim’s brother, demanded to know how long it took for someone with DOC to reach his brother and why a CO wasn’t present.
- Dashavan Carter – 55, died by suicide after being transferred from a psychiatric hospital directly to general population housing on Rikers Island.
- Emmanuel Sullivan – Rikers Island prison inmate Mary Yehudah, age 31 at the time of her death, was being cared for in the Rose M. Singer Center. OvOverearly three months, she waited for her trial to begin. Her sister pleaded with her readers to “keep us in your prayers” regularly Twenty-year-old inmate was discovered unconscious in his room on Rikers Island. After four months in jail, he was scheduled to stand trial the week before he passed away. I’ve had it. The news of Emmanuel Sullivan’s death has left me exhausted and heartbroken. Former Rikers Island inmate turned co-director of the #HALTsolitary Campaign, Victor Pate, said, “It is beyond tragic that we continue to learn about the numerous entirely preventable fatalities that have and continue to happen on Rikers Island.”
- Anibal Carrasquillo- An inmate who spoke to the Board of Correction said that the 39-year-old had complained of chest problems to correctional officials at the George R. Viermo Center on Rikers Island but that they had disregarded him.
- Albert Drye, 52, we again call on elected officials, prosecutors, the courts, and other stakeholders to facilitate the dedifferentiation local jails before another New Yorker has to spend their final moments confined in a cage in a facility grappling with a full-fledged epidemic of violence and abuse,” the statement read. They died in Department of Correction custody at Bellevue Prison Hospital Ward after being held in Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island.
- Antonio Bradley, 28, After committing himself in a courtroom cell three days before his death, was sent to Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx.
- Elijah Muhammad, a corrections officer involved in the death of a 31-year-old while in custody on Rikers Island, was fired immediately. Muhammad had been receiving treatment for an unspecified mental illness and, in the days following his death, had spent more than 32 hours in isolation, in contravention of department rules.
- Michael Lopez, 34, His Legal Aid Society lawyers, stated, “their continual decisions to place individuals into unsafe settings, and failure to address the core causes of that risk, amount to a reluctance to accept our clients as human beings.” he died while locked up in a psychiatric observation facility.
- Ricardo Cruciani On August 15, 68-year-old, who had been incarcerated at the Rikers Island jail complex since July 29, took his own life.
- Michael Nieves- 40, was placed in intensive care psychiatric housing unit owing to major mental illness, and a week after an attempted suicide, his life support was turned off. A captain and two policemen were dismissed when footage showed they had ignored his injuries for at least 10 minutes.
The city of New York must follow through on its promise to shutter Rikers Island and put an end to the ongoing violations of human rights committed within its cells. It also needs to put money towards public safety measures other than building more prisons, such as public housing, better schools, and better access to mental and physical healthcare.
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