A 27-year-old man held on Rikers Island died Monday night, bringing the total number of jail-linked deaths there to five in 2025.
According to the New York City Department of Correction account, staffers saw that Dashawn Jenkins was “visibly ill” at the George R. Vierno Center about 9:18 p.m.
They provided aid and notified medical staff, but the man died at 9:56 p.m., the DOC account states…