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Justice for the Palm Sunday massacre fell short Astoria: “Lone survivor of 1984 massacre” (March 24) brought back memories of Christopher Thomas, set free after spending 34 years behind bars for one of the most notorious crimes New York has ever had. Even the hardened criminals on Rikers Island were horrified by the brutal murders of two adult females and eight children. I was a correction ...

Dennis Applewhite, 29 – who was locked away on a murder charge – went up to the 28-year-old officer and stabbed him in the back of the head with an eight-inch piece of sharpened metal inside the Anna M. Cross Center around 4:45 p.m. Oct. 31, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office. 

Dennis Applewhite, 29, pleaded guilty Feb. 7 to a charge of attempted assault in the first degree for the unprovoked attack on the officer on Halloween last year in a protective custody unit in the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island.

Suffolk county jail is anything but fun and games. inside the jail's nashua street facility is a housing unit for those inmates whose charges have given them a reputation among other inmates. a reputation that could result in grave consequences. >> special housing unit, what we call the shu, is typically what most people refer to as pc, protective custody unit, the people who go to protective custody or special housing are those whose charges either make them very difficult to place in general population or quite often involves some sort of sexual crime charge. that individual is generally not...

>> that's my little girl. she was my reason for living at that point. she was a bundle of energy. she always had something to say. and she was a million laughs a minute. you know, she -- that's my baby. >> we didn't get a mourning period. you know, the day we were told that she died we were told that we killed her and i remember mentioning to both of my parents, this time it should be all about sammy but it can't be. you know, it has to be about us because we're on the defensive. >> conrad's older brother, baron, is housed in a different protective custody unit. his is for openly gay men. >> i...