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originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: harold223
The Intercept did a piece on Rikers Island inmates being paid to dig said Graves.
The caveat a lot of these stories will miss is that this has been a practice going back some time in NYC. Obviously this new situation is going to add to it.
Okay, that explains things a little better.
Business as usual then.
The city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) quietly posted a significant but subtle policy change to its website: Instead of holding some bodies in refrigerated city storage for 30 days until they are claimed by families, the city will now hold them for less than half that time.
On Thursday, OCME's site said decedents who are not claimed by a funeral home within two weeks would be sent to the Bronx's Hart Island, where a graveyard called City Cemetery contains more than 1 million unclaimed bodies — the largest such site in the US.
originally posted by: wheresthebody
are families not allowed to recover the body?
originally posted by: peter vlar
It’s a temporary measure because all morgues and funeral homes are beyond capacity.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: Snarl
I hope so, because those coffins are stacked and would eventually collapse. Place would be a bio-hazard for decades if left as shown.
The island is off limits to the public.
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: blend57
And Julie Sidoni has a fairly giant head for TV.
*Just had a thought...are life insurance companies going to go bankrupt because of this??? 🙄
originally posted by: Oathkeeper73
originally posted by: Snarl
a reply to: Wide-Eyes
And they're using prisoners for the labor.
Good.
originally posted by: blend57
a reply to: harold223
As Virus Kills, NYC shortens deadline for claiming bodies google search
Last responder: A day in NYC with a funeral director google search
originally posted by: are families not allowed to recover the body?