A detainee died on Rikers Island Sunday, marking the 14th death in New York City jails this year.

The man, whose name was not immediately released, died after a city correction officer noticed he “appeared unwell” in his cell in the jail’s Otis Bantum Correctional Center facility about 2 a.m., a Correction Department official said in a statement.

The officer declared a medical emergency and the jail’s medical staff, followed by EMS medics, arrived to work on the man. He died at 3:15 a.m. at Mount Sinai Queens, Correction Department officials said.

“The Department is mourning the tragic death of an individual in our custody,” Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie said in a statement. “We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family. The safety of everyone in our

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