Personal Injury Law

JAIL GUARD PROMOTES VIOLENCE

According to a story published Wednesday in the New York Times, Lloyd Nicholson, a 35 year-old guard at Riker?s Island, was arrested and has been charged with gang assault, assault, and official misconduct by the Bronx district attorney?s office. This transpired after it is alleged that guard Nicholson encouraged one group of inmates to assault another group for his purpose of maintaining order and enforcing prison discipline.

The Times story reported that the charges against Nicholson are a result of his direction to six inmates to beat three other inmates-resulting in one being treated for a collapsed lung. The six inmates were charged last October in the beatings. Apparently Nicholson rewarded the inmates who followed his directions by allowing them to take personal property and telephone privileges from other inmates. It is reported that authorities have indicated that Nicholson personally beat another inmate with a stick. According to the Times article, the motive for Nicholson?s actions was apparently that it freed him up from having to monitor his assigned post during his overnight shift.

Full post as published by New York Injury Talk Blog on March 04, 2008 (boomark / email).