Report: DOC staff errors contributed to 5 deaths in NYC jails

New York Daily News

NEW YORK — In a report released Wednesday, a city jail oversight panel detailed a series of all-too-familiar breakdowns by Department of Correction staff that contributed to five jail deaths in the first three months of 2025.

The Board of Correction reported that, in some of the cases, medical staff were not immediately notified, cell doors were not secure, officers inexplicably wandered off post or did not conduct rounds and made inaccurate logbook entries…

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