Michael Winerip and Michael Schwirtz, Rikers: Where Mental Illness Meets Brutality in Jail. The New York Times, 14 July 2014. “After being arrested on a misdemeanor charge following a family dispute last year, Jose Bautista was unable to post $250 bail and ended up in a jail cell on Rikers Island. A few days later, he tore his underwear, looped it around his neck and tried to hang himself from the cell’s highest bar. Four correction officers rushed in and cut him down. But instead of notifying medical personnel, they handcuffed Mr. Bautista, forced him to lie face down on the cell floor and began punching him with such force, according to New York City investigators, that he suffered a perforated bowel and needed emergency surgery.”
July 14, 2014
Rikers: Where Mental Illness Meets Brutality in Jail
July 14, 2014 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Law, Prisons/Jails Tagged With: andre lane, captain budnarine behari, jose bautista, joseph ponte (new york city correction commissioner), new york city department of correction, new york city department of health and mental hygiene, norman seabrook (head of the correction officers' benevolent association), officer kevin barnaby