The Justice Department moved to intervene in a class action challenging punitive segregation and widespread violence against 16-to-18-year-old inmates at Rikers Island.
Claiming that officers of the New York City Department of Correction had repeatedly used excessive force and “tolerated an extraordinarily high level of violence” perpetrated on the young men by other inmates, the Southern District U.S. Attorney’s office asked to intervene in Nunez v. City of New York, 11 Civ. 5845.
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