FDNY: 8 Rikers correction officers hurt
Photo credit: Getty Images | A view of Riker's Island, May 2011.
Eight correction officers were injured at Rikers Island Thursday afternoon during a pair of melees between prison staff and inmates, authorities said.
The officers, all of whom had minor injuries, were transported from the prison's mental health observation unit inside the Anna M. Kross Center in East Elmhurst and taken at around 1:35 p.m. to New York Hospital Queens, a FDNY spokesman said.
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