THE BRONX: More Inmate Suicides At Rikers Island This Year Than In The Last Five Years

NEW YORK POST: Only 27% of Rikers staff have completed suicide prevention refresher training

In the last year, six inmates killed themselves while in DOC custody, which is more detainee suicides than the past five years combined and the most seen since 2003 when the average jail population was 14,533, nearly triple the amount it is now, according to city data.

Rikers Island has long been a dumping ground for the Big Apple’s mentally ill and the majority of the jail’s population has been diagnosed with some sort of mental health illness, the DOC said, as they blamed the dismal training numbers on the COVID-19 pandemic and an ongoing staffing crisis.

Two correction officers who spoke to The Post on the condition of anonymity recounted a recent suicide attempt in early November where a teenager facing murder charges tied a noose to a light fixture and hanged himself in his cell....

https://nypost.com/2021/11/26/only-27-of-rikers-island-staff-completed-…