NEW YORK — An administrative law judge on Monday recommended that six New York City jail guards be fired for the brutal 2012 beating of a handcuffed Rikers Island inmate in a now-shuttered solitary confinement dorm for mentally ill prisoners.
The beating left 27-year-old Robert Hinton with a broken nose, fractured back and a bloodied, badly swollen face.
The recommendation in the Department of Correction’s disciplinary case against the five correction officers and a captain was meant to serve as an example and deter other jail workers “who would participate in or stand idly by when such brazen misconduct occurs,” Judge Tynia Richard said.
The Department of Correction said Hinton was beaten after being carried hogtied into a cell for refusing to be escorted and that to justify the use of force, the guards fabricated a story that Hinton put one of them in a chokehold.
The recommendation comes in the wake of months of headline-grabbing tales of guard misconduct and the maltreatment of inmates in the nation’s second-largest jail system.
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