NYC Department of Correction Stops Informing Press About Deaths Of Incarcerated People, Sparking Criticism

Many are skeptical about the change, including Stanley Richards, a former Rikers prisoner turned DOC commissioner, who thinks the new policy is a mistake.
“This administration is going back to the way in which jails were managed decades ago. They are closing ranks,” he told The City.
Richards is the vice president of Fortune Society, a nonprofit that supports incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people.