NYC jails record fifth inmate death this year
New York’s troubled metropolis jail system recorded its fifth inmate loss of life Wednesday — simply hours after a federal monitor launched its plan to reform the “extreme and probably life-threatening” situations contained in the lock-ups.
Mary Yehudah, 31, died at 5:11 a.m. Wednesday, metropolis Division of Correction officers mentioned. Officers didn’t reveal how she died, saying the Medical Examiner’s workplace will decide reason behind loss of life.
Yehudah had been held on $10,000 money bail since February on fees of first-degree theft, courtroom data present.
“Ms. Yehuda’s passing fills us with unhappiness, each life right here is valuable,” DOC Commissioner Louis Molina mentioned. “Our ideas are along with her household and family members.”
On Tuesday afternoon, federal monitor Steve Martin outlined a blueprint for the way Mayor Adams’ administration ought to deal with the damaging situations inside the town jail system.
The fourth loss of life in DOC custody occurred simply 10 days in the past when a 25-year-old Rikers Island inmate, Dashawn Carter, hung himself.
The tempo of deaths in custody this yr is on tempo with final yr when 16 individuals died in metropolis lock-ups, essentially the most since 2013.
