Message received? Judge should heed calls for the feds to take over Rikers
On Aug. 18, 2011, Mark Nuñez, a former detainee at the Robert N. Davoren Complex on Rikers Island, filed a complaint with the federal court for the Southern District of New York. The simple, eight-page document dealt mainly with one incident in which correction officers allegedly beat him for asking questions about a punishment being doled out, accusing them of violating his Eighth Amendment rights.