NEW: When Herman Diaz choked on an orange while held on Rikers Island other detainees banged on a station window asking for the officer on the other side to help. The officer, alone on the housing unit called for medical assistance. But the medical team said a call was never made Neither @CorrectionNYC or the medical team could explain the discrepancy, according to a new damning report released by the Board of Correction, a jails watchdog.

NEW STORY🚨 +🧵: Hours after arriving at Rikers Island in August, Khaled Eltahan was beaten so badly by another detainee that he was paralyzed from the neck down. At 41, he now needs 24-hour care at a nursing home:
nytimes.com/2022/03/02/nyr… Four months later, Jose Matias, 25, was beaten by a detainee in an understaffed housing area. Suffered seizures + needed emergency surgery to remove part of his skull to alleviate brain swelling. He had to relearn to walk + talk.
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The situation on #Rikers has worsened. According to information from city's Board of Correction, 21 inmates, 12 jail employees and five correctional health workers have tested positive for #coronavirus up from a total of eight people the day before:

nytimes.com/2020/03/20/nyr… Earlier this week, the chief physician for city jails warned public officials that a "storm is coming" + that the jails needed to be emptied as much as possible to prevent a massive outbreak. This is a 375% increase in #coronavirus cases on #RikersIsland:

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