| Slashing of
Prisoner on Rikers Island Unearths Names
Of 2 Corrections Officers in SDNY Case
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 6 – Milton Simon was
incarcerated on Rikers Island
on August 22, 2016 in his bed
"in Dorm 1-Upper when two
individuals entered the dorm
area and cut him on his arm
and on his left cheek."
He sued the NYC
Department of Corrections and
two unnamed corrections
officers.
On September 3 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn
took up the case. Inner City
Press is covering
it.
The NYC Law Department had
identifed the two corrections
officers assigned to
1-Upper-A- and B- posts.
On September 3
Judge Netburn directed that
the caption of the case by
amended to to add C.O. M.
Mills and C.O. Alvarez, Shield
No. 12053.
For now, the case
is Simon v. City of New York
Department of Corrections,
18-cv-12063 (Cronan / Netburn)
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