NYC jail nurses, doctors battered by constant threats, assaults from detainees nydailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nydailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Claude White, a 33-year-old homeless man remanded on murder charges in the death of Bronx resident Tavon Silver, attacked the jail worker on Saturday afternoon, Department of Correction sources said.
NEW YORK — A mental health clinician working on Rikers Island was stabbed in the face, chest and arm by an inmate accused of fatally knifing a man on a Manhattan subway train, the New York Daily News has learned. The clinician was attacked allegedly by detainee Claude White using a 9-inch piece of sharpened metal in housing area 13B in the troubled jail’s George R. Vierno Center just before 5 .