Last month, the year’s 13th person died in the city’s jails. Michael Nieves reportedly slit his throat and bled out while officers watched. The toll is on track to be the deadliest in almost a decade when the number of people incarcerated there was more than double what it is today. On the day Nieves died, three elected officials paid an unannounced visit to the jails, in part to take a look at suicide prevention efforts. Upon leaving, they pronounced conditions “improved.” The Department of Correction’s representatives did not mention that Nieves was lying comatose in a hospital bed from a suicide attempt just three days before.
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