The city Board of Correction found chemical agents were used 2,972 times during the first 10 months of 2023, a 50% increase from the same period of 2018, despite the jail population shrinking by about 2,000 people over the last five years…. The report found that officers pepper-sprayed a detainee “who was engaged in self-harm with a ligature around their neck” on eight occasions in October alone, instead of following protocol and cutting down the item used in the hanging attempt.