$5.9 Million Settlement in Death of Transgender Prisoner at New York’s Rikers Island

Loaded on Dec. 1, 2020 by Matthew Clarke published in Verdict1 December, 2020, page 34

Filed under: Settlements, Failure to Protect (Transgender). Location: New York.

by Matt Clarke

In August 2020, New York City agreed to settle a lawsuit over the death 15 months before of a Dominican-born transgender detainee who died of epileptic seizures while in segregation at the Rose M. Singer Center (RMSC) on the city’s Rikers Island jail complex. The $5.9 million ...

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