Sentences with phrase «beatings by correction officers»

Inmates are subjected to regular beatings by correction officers, according to a class action lawsuit.

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The state corrections department named a new superintendent for the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon — Robert Cunningham — and vowed to review «safety concerns» after the April death of a prisoner who inmates said was handcuffed and badly beaten by a group of corrections officers.

The Aug. 4 report, released by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, said that the civil rights of teenaged inmates were violated by correction officers» routine beatings for minor infractions, as part of «a deep - seated culture of violence» that permeated Rikers and also affected adult inmates.

The Correction Officers Benevolent Association last month filed a federal suit of its own, alleging inmate violence is up 18 percent since de Blasio's decree and street gang members in custody are organizing against guards, who have been «punched, kicked, slashed, splashed with urine, feces or saliva, stabbed, held hostage, beaten severely or sexually assaulted by inmates.»

Three New York State corrections officers were arrested by FBI agents this morning on conspiracy and fraud charges in connection with the beating of an inmate who sustained numerous broken bones and a collapsed lung, and had his dreadlocks ripped out.

Two inmates were strapped to gurneys, taken to a clinic in a mental health unit and beaten so badly by correction officers that blood splattered the walls and witnesses described feeling sick to their stomachs.

A 2014 report by the Correctional Association of New York, an independent non-profit that inspects state prisons and report on conditions, found Clinton Correctional Facility is a place where there is little oversight, guards regularly beat inmates, and racial tension festers between prisoners and correction officers.

for 11 days before he was allegedly beaten to death, according to a corner's report, last December by corrections officers.