In a report released Wednesday, a city jail oversight panel detailed a series of all-too-familiar breakdowns by Department of Correction staff that contributed to five jail deaths in the first three months of 2025.

The Board of Correction reported that, in some of the cases, medical staff were not immediately notified, cell doors were not secure, officers inexplicably wandered off post or did not conduct rounds and made inaccurate logbook entries.

The criticisms dovetail with similar board findings in death reports covering the past four years and once again raise questions about jail management as the city is on the verge of surrendering significant if not total control of the system to a court-ordered official.

“The long-running mismanagement of the jails has produced chronic staf

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