U.S. Inquiry Finds a ‘Culture of Violence’ Against Teenage Inmates at Rikers Island [NYTimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/5/1412:00 PM

In an extraordinary rebuke of the New York City Department of Correction, the federal government said on Monday that the department had systematically violated the civil rights of male teenagers held at Rikers Island by failing to protect them from the rampant use of unnecessary and excessive force by correction officers.

The office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, released its findings in a graphic 79-page report that described a “deep-seated culture of violence” against youthful inmates at the jail complex, perpetrated by guards who operated with little fear of punishment.

[For more of this story, written by Benjamin Weiser and Michael Schwirtz, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/nyregion/us-attorneys-office-reveals-civil-rights-investigation-at-rikers-island.html?_r=0]

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