Rikers Island inmates save female prison guard from rape by fellow convict

[Liberal_in_LA]

EXCLUSIVE: Rikers Island inmates save prison guard from rape by fellow

A group of inmates rescued a female correction officer who was nearly raped by a hulking prisoner inside a locked vestibule on Rikers Island Saturday night, The Daily News has learned.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-rikers-island-inmates-save-prison-guard-rape-article-1.2135187

The inmates helped responding correction officers frantically tear away Plexiglas on the outside of the bubble-like watch post inside the Anna M. Kross Center at 8:15 p.m., according to multiple sources.

A skinny inmate slipped inside the so-called “A station” bubble through the small crack and opened the security door. A team of inmates then took down the assailant, Raleek Young, 27, until other officers arrived.

During the attack, Young, who is 5-foot-9 and weighs 290 pounds, pulled down his pants and began masturbating while choking the officer, court records show.

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“I appreciate (them) helping a sister officer because that could have been their mother, wife or sister,” Seabrook said, noting 90% of the inmates “are there to do their time and go home.”

[freshwest]

1. Good for them. As it says, they want to do their time and go home, not hurt others.

[Skittles]

2. humans at their finest

[Brickbat]

3. "I appreciate (them) helping a sister officer because that could have been their mother, wife or

sister."

How about helping her because she's her own damn human being?

[niyad]

6. excellent point.

[George II]

10. I thought that comment about them was pretty offensive, too.

[woolldog]

16. omg, people here find everything offensive.

Good lord.

[ChazII]

25. +1 n/t

[840high]

11. ...^ that

[mythology]

22. Because we as a species commit inhuman acts when we don't regard the other as a person

Thinking of somebody as part of your larger family makes you regard them as human as somebody that matters. It's why people can walk by the homeless, or think that we shouldn't donate to overseas causes, or how the idea that poor people are just lazy bums.

And really, complaining because somebody helped to stop a rape because you think the reason wasn't "pure" enough is just silly.

[NickB79]

23. Because we create a sense of humanity by relating strangers to those we love

In a world where we interact with or cross paths with thousands of people on a monthly basis, it becomes almost impossible for our minds to actively identify every stranger's face in that crowd as a person on the same footing emotionally as our close friends and relatives. Logically, we can recognize this, but emotionally it becomes hard to muster the same sense of connection, and attempting to do so can feel overwhelming. We effectively dehumanize our fellow humans as a coping mechanism, and relating a stranger to a family member you love is a way to re-establish a connection where none existed before.

[jtuck004]

4. Maybe we should hire a few to replace some police officers. Or just have them trade places. n/t

[niyad]

7. there is a thought.

[gordianot]

14. There are going to be some police in Ferguson looking for a job soon.

As my son says who has worked as a prison guard they would not last long where he worked.

[Bagsgroove]

5. Wilbert Lee Evans -- a story that should be remembered

In 1984 there was a mass escape from death row in a prison in Mecklenburg, Virginia. A couple of inmates overpowered guards, then opened the cells of 4 other death row inmates.

One of the inmates freed, a man named Wilbert Lee Evans, did not join the others in escaping the prison. During the initial stages of the prison break, several inmates began to attack and sexually molest a prison nurse. Mr. Evans intervened, pulled them off the nurse, and fought them. When the other escapees made their way out of the prison, Mr. Evans stayed behind to help the nurse who had been attacked.

Six years later, after all appeals had been exhausted, and after the nurse Mr. Evans had saved personally pleaded with Gov. Doug Wilder for clemency, Wilbert Lee Evans was executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

[niyad]

8. thank you for posting this.

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. omg

[niyad]

9. interesting that, on latest threads page, this is currently right under an article about the delhi

rapists--almost mind-boggling lack of humanity shown by those rapists.

[eggplant]

12. Watch. The ones who saved her will probably be punished for vandalizing the place. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. update.

“She look terrorized,” Johnson recalled. “She wanted to fight him. She was violated.”

Inside, Johnson and others forcefully took down Young and waited for additional responding officers. Young was at Rikers awaiting a court date.

“I wanted to kill him,” he recalled. “There was a broom in there. I grabbed (it) and hit him.”

Norman Seabrook, president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, met on Wednesday some of the inmates who helped rescue the woman and offered to submit a letter of commendation to the judges handling their cases.

“They saved her life,” Seabrook said. “They got through that hole by the grace of God.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-rikers-island-inmate-talks-saving-rape-article-1.2138229?ref=Outbrain&ADLocation=footer&ADPosition=2

[flvegan]

13. Did I see properly that the crim, Raleek Young is serving time for raping a 13 year old?

Good on the people who did what they did, and I hope that officials take that into consideration, if appropriate, at any parole or behavior hearing for the folks (called "inmates" here) are up for.

[VScott]

15. 'Serving a five-to-10-year sentence for raping a 13-year-old girl in 2007'

Ohhhh... but he can be 'rehabilitated'.

Fuck him.

PoS should be behind bars in solitaire for life with as little human contact as possible.

[NaturalHigh]

17. Absolutely.

[BubbaFett]

18. We had a dude jag off during chow

when there was a female CO present.

He got a beat down for that shit.

[Ilsa]

21. Maybe it's just the bad stories that have affected me, but

I'm beginning to feel like only men should guard men and only women should guard women. There is sexual assault by women jailers, just as there is by men guarding women. And then there's this situation from the OP. I'm just not certain that mixing genders works for prisons.

[eggplant]

24. Rape is about violence, not sex.

[Ilsa]

29. I'm well aware of that.

But I still wonder if mixing both genders makes it worse under these circumstances.