Suit: NYC sends young inmates upstate where they're beaten
Source: Associated Press
Updated 2:06 pm CST, Saturday, December 29, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has sent dozens of young Rikers Island inmates to an upstate jail where they have been brutalized and held in solitary confinement, despite a city policy barring such confinement for anyone under 22, a federal lawsuit has alleged.
A complaint filed Friday accuses the city of using jail transfers to punish inmates it deems undesirable — many have been charged with assaulting Rikers guards — and to circumvent its solitary-confinement rules.
The Albany County jail staffers have unjustly beat the young men and forcibly conducted rectal searches, the civil rights suit says.
"It is time for the torture to stop," lawyers Katherine Rosenfeld, Douglas Lieb and Steven Goldman wrote in the suit.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Suit-NYC-sends-young-jail-inmates-into-brutality-13497298.php
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