Tag: correction officers

NYC jail staff blocked medics from treating 23-year-old woman who died weeks later

NEW YORK (AP) — City correction officers repeatedly blocked medical staff from administering care to a severely ill woman held at Rikers Island...

New York's governor orders firing of prison staffers involved in inmate's fatal beating

NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor has ordered more than a dozen prison staffers to be fired over the fatal beating of...