A longtime Rikers Island corrections officer required six stitches to repair a cut over his eye Friday after being attacked in the face by a violent inmate at the notorious city jail.
The 47-year-old woman, who asked to remain anonymous because she was not approved to speak publicly, told The Post that she was tired of being released from the island’s prison and solitary confinement recently abolished by the city. Is calling for restarting. ,
“They just attack us and come back to the same housing areas,” said the officer, who has spent a decade on the job.
“They brag about it,” he said. “‘They say, ‘I just assaulted an officer but nothing is going to happen to me.’ They were kept in isolation.”
The officer was on duty Friday afternoon when she saw inmate Rosita Sanders — who is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs more than 200 pounds — allegedly attacking another inmate.
The 5-foot-4 officer was reporting an assault when Sanders came up from behind her and looked at her face, she said.
“I was shocked by the blow,” said the officer, who has a 12-year-old son.
The officer said he asked the inmate, “Why did you hit me?”
Sanders, whose rap sheet includes two alleged assaults earlier this month, simply responded, “Just spray me!” Referring to the pepper spray officers carried.
The officer’s face was bleeding as he picked up a piece of white paper and pressed it on the wound.
“I had blood everywhere,” she recalled. “I placed a piece of paper on the side of my face and headed to the clinic.”
Court records show Sanders has been in Rikers awaiting trial on the alleged assaults since early November. According to , he was arrested again for second-degree assault and other charges for lunging at an officer without warning. correctional officer Milan,
But “it doesn’t matter,” the officer said. “He’s already in jail for assault.”
Days before the violent encounter, the serial attacker had also attacked another inmate and had been released back into the general population, the official told The Post.
The officer says she wants the city to reinstate solitary confinement or introduce some other punishment for inmates who aggressively misbehave with corrections officers.
According to the union, there have been more than 450 assaults on corrections officers since the City Council banned solitary confinement in December 2023.
“When we were in (isolation), the jail ran a little better,” he said.
“They have to come up with some kind of system where they will be held accountable for their actions. You can’t keep beating people like this and you can’t even get punished for it.
Benny Bossio, president of the Corrections Officers Benevolent Association, pointed the finger at the leftist-led City Council for provoking the issue.
“This unprovoked attack on our officer, who was simply doing his job, is another stark reminder of how the City Council’s reckless legislation, which protects violent criminals while endangering the safety of our officers, has Our prisons have failed everyone,” said Bosio.
Just last month, an alleged pervert was locked up in Rikers groped City Councilwoman Sandy Nurse during a tour of the troubled jail.
Bosio said, “The Council members who voted to ban presumptive segregation should take a close look at the results of the last election and realize that more and more New Yorkers are rejecting their soft-on-crime policies. Have been.”
Meanwhile, Adhikari stays at home and takes care of herself and her son.
“My son was like, ‘Mom, what happened? Are you OK?'” she remembered. “He’s a little shocked.”
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