Federal prosecutors sued New York City on Thursday over alleged civil rights violations after a Department of Justice investigation found a "deep-seated culture of violence" against young inmates at the Rikers Island jail.
+ The Department of Justice's two-and-a-half-year investigation's findings, released by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, concluded that Rikers is a "broken institution" for adolescent prisoners, where corrections officers repeatedly used excessive force that violated the constitutional rights of prisoners, namely the "cruel and unusual punishments" prohibited by the Eighth and 14th amendments.
+ The Department of Justice's two-and-a-half-year investigation's findings, released by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, concluded that Rikers is a "broken institution" for adolescent prisoners, where corrections officers repeatedly used excessive force that violated the constitutional rights of prisoners, namely the "cruel and unusual punishments" prohibited by the Eighth and 14th amendments.
+"[Inmates] are entitled to be detained safely and in accordance with their constitutional rights — not consigned to a corrections crucible that seems more inspired by Lord of the Flies than any legitimate philosophy of human detention," wrote Bharara in August.
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