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NY: Jail Guard Union Throws Party for Indicted Rikers Island Guards

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Jail Guard Union Throws Party for Indicted Guards Posted by Graham Rayman at 2:47 PM, February 9, 2009 Last Friday, the Voice has learned, the union for correction officers held a 10-hour fundraiser to benefit three members who were indicted two weeks ago for deputizing teen inmates as enforcers in a Rikers Island jail. In the fallout that has followed the murder of teen Christopher Robinson, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson got indictments against the officers for ordering a group of teens to beat up other teens at the Robert N. Davoren Center, the area where young offenders are held. They called their operation, "The Program." Robinson was beaten to death for refusing to go along with "The Program," officials have said. The fundraising party for the indicted jail guards was held from 6 p...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).