NEW YORK — Unstaffed posts, a failure to check on detainees, delays in providing first aid, inaccurate log book entries, missed medical visits and pretrial stays of more than a year.
Themes of widespread dysfunction run through the latest Board of Correction report on deaths in the jails released Wednesday covering seven fatalities from August through December 2022, and echo conclusions in two earlier BOC reports on 2021 and 2022 deaths.
“The pervasive issue of insufficient or inadequate rounding (walking housing units) and supervision was present in five of the seven deaths investigated in this report,” the Board of Correction said.
