By Russ Buettner
New York Times
Correction officers at the Westchester County Jail used excessive force on inmates who were sometimes already restrained or compliant, dousing their faces with excessive amounts of pepper spray or, in one case, slamming a prisoner’s head into a wall, a federal investigation has concluded.
A 42-page report released Monday also found that the jail insufficiently documented and investigated the use of force by its correction officers. Videographers documenting such occurrences under jail policy fail to focus their cameras or aim the lens toward the floor during the beatings, the report said.
Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement that the jail had “utterly failed” to protect inmates and to provide humane conditions.
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