A man held in a Rikers Island jail died early Tuesday, the ninth city jail-related death in 2025, officials said.

The man, whose identity has yet to be released, was found unresponsive in a bathroom at the Eric M. Taylor Center and declared dead at 8:28 a.m., the officials said. The cause and circumstances are under investigation.

The jail-related death toll of nine in 2025 has now matched that of 2023 and came as advocates rallied at City Hall to protest the passing of another detainee, Christian Collado, on July 9. There were five jail deaths in 2024, 19 in 2022, Mayor Adams’ first year in office, and 16 in 2021, the final year of Mayor de Blasio’s tenure.

Collado, who had two open criminal cases, died of cancer in the Bellevue Hospital jail ward, officials and advocates said.

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