Every time an inmate dies of anything but old age, guards and wardens have failed at their job. They should be suspended and investigated, then fired and prosecuted if inattention or dereliction is proven.
Every damned time.
Every time an inmate dies of anything but old age, guards and wardens have failed at their job. They should be suspended and investigated, then fired and prosecuted if inattention or dereliction is proven.
Every damned time.
That’s a pretty good question.
On this page, the city says it held 6,138 inmates on 9/1/2023, and as of August the average stay was 92 days. Wikipedia says the city’s estimated population was 8,467,513, as of July 2021.
Someone’s gotta be smart enough to calculate an approximate answer from those numbers, but I slept through the kind of math it would take. Anyone?
Uhhh, I’ll try. This site lists the New York death rate at 0.0060 (0.6%)
28/6138 = 0.0046 (0.46%) So it’s about the same? Not sure how to include the average length of stay in the calculation.