For the 14th time this year, an inmate died while in the Corrections Department's custody on Rikers Island, the agency announced Wednesday.
“They made complaints about mold in the showers, worms in the showers, flies, food being shoved under their cell doors – essentially they were being treated like animals,” said Assemblymember Kenny Burgos following the Sept. 12 visit. “They complained that they were not getting haircuts and just basic medical care.”
The reported death was met with outrage from some civil rights groups, including the Freedom Agenda. One member, Tamara Carter, lost her son Brandon Rodriguez last year after he was held in solitary confinement at Rikers Island. “It’s now been just over a year since my son’s death in that place, and three more people have taken their own lives in the past month alone,” Carter said in a statement. “I don’t know what the Mayor is waiting for to do something. Does he even care? What are we going to have to do? Do they want us to film each funeral to see the families’ pain up close and personal? The Board of Correction just reported the gruesome findings of many of last year’s deaths. Doing nothing equals more death.
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