(CNN) More than a dozen corrections officers will be disciplined in connection with the death of Layleen Cubilette-Polanco, a transgender woman held at New York's Rikers Island jail, city officials said. Three officers and a captain of the New York City Department of Correction were suspended without pay immediately, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement on Friday. "The death of Layleen Polanco was an incredibly painful moment for our city," de Blasio said. She had been arrested on misdemeanor charges of assault and harassment, court records show. She was taken into custody because she missed court dates as part of an alternative to incarceration program stemming from prostitution charges, according to court records.

Source: CNN June 28, 2020 00:56 UTC