In May 2023, after a spike in deaths on Rikers Island, city jail officials suddenly stopped notifying the media shortly after an incarcerated person passed away.  Frank Dwyer, a spokesperson for then Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina, told THE CITY at the time that notifying the public after each death was a “practice, not […]

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