treatment provided to Mr. Ballard by the city’s Correction Department and by a city contractor, Corizon Health, was “so incompetent and inadequate as to shock the conscience.”

The commission, a prison watchdog agency, said it found that Mr. Ballard, 39, was deprived of medication for his diabetes and schizophrenia, and even running water in his cell.

“Had Ballard received adequate and appropriate medical and mental health care and supervision and intervention when he became critically ill, his death would have been prevented,” the commission said.

The city medical examiner ruled that Mr. Ballard’s death was a homicide.

City to Pay $5.75 Million Over Death of Mentally Ill Inmate at Rikers Island – The New York Times

Damn straight it was homicide and the individuals responsible for his treatment should be inmates in Rikers themselves.