NEW YORK: A prisoner in New York City Jail Barge died Wednesday after a clear medical emergency, said the city correction department.
At least the 12th death of a city prisoner this year and the second this week in the midst of several elected officials and advocates has considered the “humanitarian crisis” in the locking of the city.
The correction department said in a statement that inmates at Vernon C Bain Center, Bronx prison floated across the East River from the Island Rikers Prison Complex, seemed to be in medical pressure and was taken to the hospital, where he was said.
Die around 10:50.
Correction Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi said he was “destroyed to see that we had another death in custody, and determined to stop this heartbreaking trend”.
“We do everything we can to improve the crisis that we have experienced in our prison.
My thoughts and prayers with people who are loved by individuals,” said Shiraldi.
The correction department does not identify prisoners by name, while waiting for the next Kin notice.
The cause of death is being investigated by the city medical examiner office.
The center of Bain, a five-storey prison stacked on a 625 foot barge (190.5-m), opened in 1992 as a temporary assistance for crowded city prisons.
Since then, it has been criticized for density density.
The city prison system, problematic with years of ignorance, has spin into chaos during the coronavirus pandemic with a surge in prisoners, violence, self-damage and staff absence.
Most of the problems have been concentrated on Rikers Island.
On Sunday, the Rikers inmates Isaabdul Karim (42) died at the prison hospital after reporting he felt unwell, officials said.
He was given CPR, but he was then said to die.
At least five prisoners have died this year with suicide, the most have existed since 2005.
Chaos has caused the growth of calls to remodel or immediately close the island of Rikers, which the city will be closed at 2027.
On Tuesday, on Tuesday.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jerry Nadler, Jamaal Bowman and Nydia Velazquez sent a letter to the New York Gubern.
Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio demanded the exemption of inmates and complex closures.
They called conditions in prison “ sad and no shortage of humanitarian crisis.
” Last week, De Blasio announced a reform plan including requiring a doctor’s record if the prison guard came out more than one day and suspended the 30-day guard without paying.
They don’t appear to work.
Hochul signed the bill which mostly eliminated prison for violations of technical conditional liberation.
Meanwhile, the city union and prison continued to fight over the absence of staff.
On Monday, the city demanded trade unions, accused him forgiving or encouraging sick employees, an illegal attack.
President of Union Benny Bocio Jr.
Called a lawsuit ‘does not have’ and `less than ” ” and said that De Bloasia who was desperate and sad to shift the mistake of him for the humanitarian crisis he created on the island of Rikers and the chaos he made throughout the city.
“The Union also rejected De Blasio’s plan to send private security guards to Rikers so that 150 correctional officers who currently maintain complex perimers can be transferred into prison.
Trade unions say such steps will violate state laws supported by trade unions that prohibit cities to replace public prison employees with private guards.
De Blasio said it would only be a temporary emergency improvement.
“ This is an emergency dynamics, ” De Blasio told reporters Wednesday.
“ Until now it has passed, we will use whatever tools needed to keep people safe.
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The 12th inmates died because the New York City prison crisis grew up
