{"id":28885,"date":"2023-06-02T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=28885"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:42:13","slug":"nyc-comptroller-updates-doc-dashboard-deaths-in-custody-count-to-unknown-after-doc-halts-public-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/28885","title":{"rendered":"NYC Comptroller updates DOC Dashboard deaths in custody count to UNKNOWN After DOC halts public disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York: After Department of Correction officials said that they would not continue a policy of reporting deaths to the public, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander updated the Comptroller\u2019s Department of Correction (DOC) Dashboard to \u201dsay deaths in custody were \u201cunknown.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, DOC officials failed to notify the public about at least two deaths: Rubu Zhao, 52 and Joshua Valles, 31. Jail officials reportedly also sought to prevent the release of a federal monitor\u2019s report that noted with alarm on Friday, May 26 \u201cserious and disturbing incidents involving harm to incarcerated persons\u201d that were not properly disclosed to the monitor.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Comptroller Brad Lander reiterated his call for a federal receiver to step in to manage the city\u2019s jails:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDOC leadership apparently doesn\u2019t care about the humanity of the people in its custody enough to even report honestly when they die. The appointment of a federal receiver to operate Rikers is a moral and operational necessity to confront the jail system\u2019s utter disregard for transparency and accountability. The lives of people awaiting trial are not disposable and their deaths cannot be swept under the rug,\u201d said Comptroller Brad Lander.<\/p>\n<p>The Comptroller\u2019s dashboard monitors pervasive issues in the City\u2019s jails, including staff absenteeism, missed medical appointments, and incidents of violence among detained people and staff. It also tracks the jail population every month and length of stay. The Comptroller\u2019s Office publishes data to this dashboard monthly to provide increased transparency and accountability over the City\u2019s jail system. The most recent update was May 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York: After Department of Correction officials said that they would not continue a policy of reporting deaths to the public, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander updated the Comptroller\u2019s Department of Correction (DOC) Dashboard to \u201dsay deaths in custody were \u201cunknown.\u201d In recent weeks, DOC officials failed to notify the public about at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,32,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-pakistan","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28887,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885\/revisions\/28887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}