One of those detainees - 42-year-old Isaabdul Karim - died three weeks after he spent 10 days “mired in intake,” where he contracted COVID-19, his lawyers have said. Internal records obtained by The Post offer a glimpse of the problem’s scope and indicate at least 256 inmates festered inside the OBCC intake beyond the 24-hour limit between June and late September because of “medical delay” and “shortage of DOC staff.” Rikers Island inmate dies on same day he is granted emergency release The images show as many as 26 men stuffed body to body in single cells where they were forced to relieve themselves inside plastic bags and take turns sleeping on the fetid floors. The Post obtained exclusive photos showing the intake cells at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island between July and late September where hundreds of inmates languished for days or weeks on end in violation of city regulations, which require they be assigned a housing area within 24 hours. ![]() ![]() This is what the epicenter of the crisis on Rikers Island - which has a whopping $1.2 billion budget for fiscal year 2022 - looked like for months. Plastic sheets for blankets, cardboard boxes for beds and bags that substituted for toilets. Filthy floors sullied with rotten food, maggots, urine, feces and blood. ![]() Rikers inmate charged with attempted murder for pummeling correction officerĬhinatown chefs, restaurants demand that NYC scrap plans for world’s tallest jailĮx-NYC inmates leave $4.2M sitting in unclaimed jail commissary accounts: officialsĭozens of men crammed together for days in temporary holding cells amid a pandemic. Adams says closing Rikers Island a ‘flawed plan’ as he asks City Council for new solution
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