Bramir on WNYC, a bit of breaking news this morning.

Another young person detained at Rikers Island has died.

Graham Raymond at the Daily News reports a detainee held on robbery and bail jumping charges

died in New York City's Rikers Island jail early today, just seven days after entering

the system.

Sources said the 27-year-old man is the ninth detainee to die in city jail so far this year

following 19 deaths in 2022 and 16 in 2021.

27 people have died in the jails during the Adams administration that from the Daily News.

New York City Council member Carlina Rivera is with us now.

We had already planned to speak with her about the crisis in city jails and the work being

done on city council to mitigate that crisis before today's tragically relevant news.

As chair of the council's Committee on Criminal Justice, council member Rivera has introduced

legislation that would set notification rules related to deaths of people held in New

York City Department of Correction Facilities.

Last year remember was the deadliest on record at Rikers with a total of 19 deaths.

We'll talk about that and the push from city council's Committee on Criminal Justice

for broader transparency throughout the Department of Correction and getting people to their

court dates which you think would be pretty basic but doesn't seem to happen as regularly

as it should not nearly.

Council member Rivera represents district two that's lower east side up through around

east 34th street in Manhattan and again she also chairs the council's Committee on Criminal

Justice.

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