Rikers Island prison guards charged over fatal beating

Here are some other stories from Rikers,

According to prosecutors in the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office, the program was a “secret society run by correctional officers at Rikers Island to extort and beat other inmates.” Robinson died, the victim of overzealous correctional officers and bloodthirsty inmates.

http://bronxjournal.com/2012/05/everything-died-with-him/

“The pattern of brutality in the city’s jails is deeply entrenched,” the lawsuit says, noting that five previous class-actions, dating to the early 1990s, exposed “a culture of routine and institutionalized staff violence against inmates.” But despite court orders and settlements, the suit says, “the abuse has continued.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/nyregion/suit-says-new-york-citys-jails-condone-guards-beatings-of-inmates.html?_r=0

The Rikers Island prison in New York is now the target of a ground-shaking new lawsuit that alleges up to eight prison guards were allowed to rape female inmates with the blessing of city officials.

Two women at the Rose M. Singer Center portion of the prison claim that they were raped repeatedly by the same guard, whom they name as Benny Santiago, CNN reports.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2111491/rikers-island-sex-scandal-guards-allowed-to-rape-inmates-with-city-consent-lawsuit-claims/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island#Abuse_and_neglect_of_prisoners

About 1,500 of the 10,000 inmates on Rikers have been there for more than a year without being convicted of a crime, and 400 have languished behind bars for more than two years without trials, according to the mayor’s office. Such lengthy pretrial stays are caused by court backlogs, high bail for poor defendants, bad legal representation...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/14/rikers-island-de-blasio-justice-reboot_n_7065438.html

Most of the 12,000 inmates at Rikers are awaiting trial or have been granted release and have not been released yet.

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