A man held in a city jail died under as yet undisclosed circumstances early Friday, the 13th jail-related death in 2025, officials said.

The detainee was found in medical distress in a bathroom at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island at 12:04 a.m. and taken to that jail’s medical clinic 20 minutes later, the Correction Department said in a statement.

Medics then took him to a nearby hospital where he died. DOC had not disclosed further details as of mid Friday morning.

“A man in the Department’s custody tragically passed away after being transported to the hospital,” DOC Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie said in a statement. The care of everyone who resides in our facilities is our highest priority, and we mourn his loss.”

The death is the 13th jail-related death

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