Dear New Yorkers, The court-appointed overseer of New York City’s dangerous jails is accusing city Department of Correction leaders of withholding information about grave injuries among incarcerated people, in a special report to a federal judge highlighting five recent deadly or life-threatening incidents. The monitor declared “significant cause for concern about the imminent risk of harm to people in custody.” Also notable: Martin describes how his team has had to rely on media reports, including from THE CITY, to learn basic information about injuries and fatalities in city jails. In an incident first highlighted by THE CITY, detainee James Carlton was put on life support after being taken to the floor by correction officers at the Vernon C. Bain jail barge in The Bronx on May 11. The monitor’s report reveals that Carlton became paralyzed — and that Martin had been thwarted in getting information about the incident until THE CITY published its article on May 24. At Rikers Island, detainee Rubu Zhao leaped to his death in a mental health unit on May 17. Martin wrote that “the Monitoring Team only learned about the incident via a media report” — specifically an article in the Daily News. And that wasn’t the end of efforts by the Department of Correction to keep information out of public view. According to Martin, DOC Commissioner Louis Molina urged against releasing the monitor’s special report, arguing it would “cause great harm [to the Department] when we are making great strides.” Read more here. | 
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