{"id":146,"date":"2016-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/former-rikers-inmate-severely-injured-in-attack-gets-settlement\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:32:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:32:03","slug":"former-rikers-inmate-severely-injured-in-attack-gets-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/former-rikers-inmate-severely-injured-in-attack-gets-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rikers inmate severely injured in attack gets settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our last two posts we discussed the growing concern over assaults that lead to injuries in New York City correctional facilities. We discussed the various statistics that have been collected showing the increase in cases and payouts. But sometimes what can really highlight the severity of the problem is a real-life story.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a man settled a lawsuit for $750,000 after he was beat by correctional officers while he was at Rikers. The man was admittedly a crack addict but has since cleaned up and is working to make a better life for himself.<\/p>\n<p>The man explained that the incident happened one day after some inmates threw food at officers in the prison. He was apparently in his cell listening to music on his headphones. An officer came into his cell and told him to take off the headphones, sit down on the bed and to \u201cstop being so loud.\u201d The man said he did just that. Suddenly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/rikers-beaten-inmate-750g-traumatized-article-1.2580569\" target=\"_blank\"> started punching him in the face<\/a>. More officers came into the cell and beat the man, who is now 53, in the ribs, face and back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/former-rikers-inmate-severely-injured-in-attack-gets-settlement\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Former Rikers inmate severely injured in attack gets settlement\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our last two posts we discussed the growing concern over assaults that lead to injuries in New York City correctional facilities. We discussed the various statistics that have been collected showing the increase in cases and payouts. But sometimes what can really highlight the severity of the problem is a real-life story. Recently, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-injury","tag-brain-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Rikers inmate severely injured in attack gets settlement &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; April 4, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Rikers inmate severely injured in attack gets settlement - Brain Injury - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/former-rikers-inmate-severely-injured-in-attack-gets-settlement\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Former Rikers inmate severely injured in attack gets settlement &#8212; 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