'Culture Of Violence' Pervades Rikers' Juvenile Facilities [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 10/15/1412:00 PM

For most of New York, Rikers Island is out of sight and out of mind. It's in the middle of the East River between Queens and the Bronx. There's only one unmarked bridge that leads on and off. But a recent report on violence by correction officers, or COs, was no surprise to those who've spent time there.

"Couple of individuals that was close with I saw get [their] jaws broken by CO captains ... arms broken, ribs," says Ismael Nazario, who went to Rikers Island for the first of three times in 2005, at the age of 16. "This stuff been going on for the longest. This isn't anything new."

Nazario says he was beaten up shortly after arriving. He says someone hit him from behind and then four others jumped him — all while he says a CO was present and let it happen.

[For more of this story, written by Joel Rose, go to http://www.npr.org/2014/10/15/...-juvenile-facilities]

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