The family of Segundo Guallpa, a detained person at Rikers Island who died in City custody, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of New York and several Department of Corrections (DOC) officers for $25 million.
The Guallpa family has filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on Nov. 2 against the City of New York as well as against the corrections officers that the family allege were negligent in acting to interfere and offer aid to Guallpa before he died.
“The City of New York, its Department of Correction, its employees, and its leadership have failed, admittedly, to properly staff and prevent self-harm at Rikers Island” attorneys Wertheimer and Najmi said in the complaint. No guard saw this note or Guallpa writing it, although the note itself was several hundred characters long and most likely took a few hours to carve into the wall.
“This case involves the failure of DOC employees to perform routine duties, and the creation of falsified records to cover up their conduct,” said Wertheimer and Najmi in a statement Tuesday. “There is a deliberate indifference to the mental and physical health needs of inmates inside Rikers Island. Segundo Guallpa should still be alive but for the recklessness of the Department of Corrections and the deliberate indifference of the City of New York to those in its custody.
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