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As a federal judge contemplates who to assign to take over managing Rikers Island, a Staten Island man has become the 12th person to die in a city jail this year — as he waited more than two months to be transferred upstate.

Carlos Cruz, 43, was found experiencing what appeared to be a seizure at the George R. Vierno Center on Rikers at around 7:49 p.m. Wednesday, according to the New York City Department of Correction.

Medical staff and emergency responders tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at 8:35 p.m., the DOC said in a press release.

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