A man in Rikers Island died Tuesday morning, becoming the eighth New Yorker to die in city jail custody this year, advocates said.
Donny Ubiera, 33, died inside the jail’s George R. Vierno Center, according to a statement from The Legal Aid Society.
Advocates insisted that Ubiera’s family deserves immediate answers from Department of Correction officials and jail medical staff on what led to his death, writing that “all too often, our client’s loved ones are deprived of even the most basic information following the passing of a relative.”
We are a sour, cruel people who are quick to condemn and slow to emphasize.
The most important single metric with which to judge a society is how it treats its prisoners.
Our world’s largest per capita, punitive, non-rehabilitative, for-private profit off human misery prison INDUSTRY should be a source of national shame.
Instead, many Americans still insist it isn’t cruel and punitive enough, preferring schadenfreude, blame, and insistence that the cruelty we inflict is necessary and somehow deserved, to owning up to the understandably disillusioned citizens in our prisons and homeless tent cities that WE as a society have utterly and completely failed.
Sadly, our nation has grown to be immune to the concept of shame.
Texas: “Thems rookie numbers, yankee”
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/21/texas-prison-heat-deaths/
At least 41 people have died in stifling, uncooled prisons of either heart-related or unknown causes during Texas’ relentless and record-breaking heat wave this summer
At least another 29 have died of what are still unknown causes pending autopsy results. The death count is likely higher, as prisons have 30 days to report a prisoner’s death to the state.
TDCJ has reported 35 employee heat-related illnesses this year, but only 14 among prisoners
And that’s just heat related over the past few months.
Do you reckon Picard has ever been in Rikers?
He didn’t call him his “number one” for nothing.
