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| APNewsBreak: 5 inmates stabbed, slashed after jail lockdown |
| By orovillemr.com- Jake Pearson |
| Published: 03/12/2015 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — In the week since New York City jail officials took the rare step of locking down four of Rikers Island's largest facilities for 34 hours to stop gang violence, four inmates have been slashed and a fifth stabbed, according to jail statistics obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. Four slashings and a stabbing occurred in jails that the elite Department of Correction security officers locked down on March 3 and 4 to search 2,000 inmates and their cells, according to official jail reports. A fifth slashing occurred Wednesday in a facility that houses older inmates as well as 16- and 17-year-olds. The rash of violence comes a day after jails Commissioner Joseph Ponte told reporters the lockdown was a short-term success in slowing the increased problem of gang, as well as intra-gang, fighting in the nation's second-largest jail system. It also comes a day before Mayor Bill de Blasio is scheduled to visit the 10-facility jail complex to unveil a comprehensive 14-point plan to curb violence. Read More. |
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