The week before John Price died in city Department of Correction custody in March, he told his family he was having to sleep sitting up in his cell — if he laid down, he felt like he was drowning.
“He said, ‘I don’t feel good, they’re not helping me, they’re just sending me back to my cell,’” Price’s brother, Arnez Price, recalled.
Several days later, on March 29, Price’s family received a call from doctors at Elmhurst Hospital. They told his family that Price was in their care, and that his heart had stopped…