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Mayor Adams and DOC condemned by Legal Aid Society for two recent jail deaths

By Isabel Song Beer

Posted on September 27, 2022

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The Legal Aid Society, a non-profit legal aid organization, publicly condemned Mayor Eric Adams as well as the city’s Department of Corrections (DOC) Commissioner Louis Molina Tuesday over the two most recent in-custody deaths.

Gregory Acevedo and Robert Pondexter were both Legal Aid clients and died in DOC custody, with Acevedo dying after being found in the East River on Sept. 20 and Pondexter suffering a catastrophic medical emergency in custody and dying Sept. 22.

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Mayor Adams and DOC condemned by Legal Aid Society for two recent jail deaths

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