The Department of Correction said Wednesday that the inmate who passed away earlier on the day at a jail barge had suffered a “medical emergency.”
The decedent was identified as Stephen Khadu. He was detained at the Bain Center jail since 2019 for a second-degree murder charge.
Khadu seemed in medical distress and was rushed to a hospital but died shortly later at around 10:50 a.m.
His death marks the second fatality among New York City’s prison population to occur this week and the 12th this year.
Correction Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi described being “devastated” to announce yet another death in custody in a matter of days but insisted that officials are “determined to stop this heartbreaking trend.”
“We are doing all we can to remedy the unprecedented crisis we are experiencing in our jails. My thoughts and prayers are with the individual’s loved ones.”
