New York Daily News, October 25, 2022
Correction Department staffers aren’t scanned for contraband when they go to work at Rikers Island and other lockup — and City Council members asked Tuesday if that has something to do with a series of fatal drug overdoses in the jails over the last two years.
Nine of the 33 deaths in the jails since Jan.
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by Courtney Gross, October 25, 2022
“It feels so unfair,” Amariliz Torres Tavira said through tears. “Not just for my family, but for everyone else that’s a part of this.”
This is the family of Erick Tavira.
The 28-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Saturday. It’s a suspected suicide and the 17th death of someone in custody or recently released from custody this year.
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