Two more people held in city jails died by suicide in 2025 and three more fatally overdosed on contraband narcotics, the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed Monday.

The coroner’s office said Sonia Reyes, 50, who died March 20 in the West Facility, and Benjamin Kelly, 37, who died June 21 in the Eric M. Taylor Center, both took their own lives by hanging.

Terence Moore, 55, who died Feb. 24 in a holding area in Manhattan Criminal Court, overdosed on synthetic marijuana, sometimes known as “K2,” as did Dashawn Jenkins, 27, who died March 31 at the George R. Vierno Center, the office said.

James Maldonado, 56, died June 21 — the same day as Kelly — while on a Department of Correction bus of an overdose caused by the combined effects of fentanyl, morphine an

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