New York City Failed Three Inmates Who Died of COVID-19 in Jail, Watchdog Says
Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY A disregard of social distancing protocols. A failure to distribute masks, forcing detainees to use sheets and pillowcases to protect themselves. And a denial of basic medical treatment — including a CPAP machine taken away. Those are some of the findings of the city’s jail watchdog in its probe into the deaths of three detainees in local lockups during the peak of the pandemic last spring. “Nobody in New York State should be sentenced to death,” said Alice Fontier, managing director of Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. Jail officials and government l...
Source: thecity.nyc