{"id":63643,"date":"2025-12-07T22:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63643\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:43:06","slug":"rikers-island-inmate-dies-after-being-found-unwell-in-cell-14th-death-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63643\/","title":{"rendered":"Rikers Island inmate dies after being found unwell in cell, 14th death in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

An inmate at Rikers Island died early Sunday morning after being found unwell in his cell marking the 14th death at the jail complex this year, New York City Department of Correction officials said.<\/p>\n

Gothamist<\/a> reported that a guard discovered the man looking \u201cunwell\u201d in his cell at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center at 2 a.m. Medical staff and EMS workers provided aid before transporting him to Mount Sinai Queens Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:15 a.m. <\/p>\n

The man has not been publicly identified, according to the DOC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department is mourning the tragic death of an individual in our custody. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family,\u201d NYC Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie said.\u201cThe safety of everyone in our care is always our foremost concern, and we will fully investigate this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The department notified several agencies of the death, including the Federal Monitor, Board of Correction and State Attorney General\u2019s office, officials said.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s death toll at Rikers or shortly after release from the facility is more than twice the number of deaths recorded last year, according to Gothamist\u2019s tracking of Department of Correction reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inmate at Rikers Island died early Sunday morning after being found unwell in his cell marking the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24579,33459,9,33460,11,10,8098],"class_list":{"0":"post-63643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-correctional-facility","9":"tag-inmate-housing","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city-department-of-correction","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-prison"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}