Even after a “damning” U.S. attorney general report and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s declaration of commitment to end brutality at Riker’s Island, violence continues at the New York prison. According to a New York Times investigation, inmates have experience broken bones, head injuries, and knocked-out teeth in altercations with guards and other inmates.
From the story: “According to Correction Department data, guards used physical force against inmates 4,074 times in 2014, the highest total in more than a decade. The increase came even as the jail’s average daily population continued to decline, falling to 10,000 this year from 14,000 a decade ago. Seventy percent of the 62 beatings examined by The Times resulted in head injuries, even though department policies direct guards to avoid blows to the head unless absolutely necessary. And more than half the inmates sustained broken bones.”
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