“For adolescents, Rikers Island is a broken institution. It is a place where brute force is the first impulse rather than the last resort; where verbal insults are repaid with physical injuries; where beatings are routine while accountability is rare; and where a culture of violence endures even while a code of silence prevails,” said Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in a joint statement with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
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