NYC corrections officer ‘crushed’ during brutal attack on Rikers Island

An employee at the city’s correctional facility had to receive 17 stitches to his face after an inmate “crushed” him while delivering food on Rikers Island, sources and union officials said Thursday.

The officer was attacked after intervening when an inmate, identified by sources as 47-year-old Edwin Duclocel, threatened a fellow commanding officer at the troubled Anna M. Cross Center Detention Center just after 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Department of Corrections. union officials.

The guard tried to calm Duclocel, but the prisoner allegedly turned on him and lashed out at him, the corrections union said.

According to a union spokesman, the prisoner punched the guard several times and kicked him in the face after he fell to the floor.

The gruesome photos obtained by The Post show four sets of stitches above and below the officer’s right eye.

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The officer broke his cheekbone and required 17 stitches due to the attack.
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The prisoner who attacked the officer was taken into custody in November 2022.

He was treated in the hospital for cuts to his face and a broken cheekbone and was released by Thursday, according to a union and DOC spokesman.

Duclocel has been held in a troubled prison without bail on assault charges since November 2022.

“This heinous attack was completely unprovoked and the man was immediately re-arrested,” James Boyd, New York City Department of Public Information’s deputy commissioner for public information, said in a statement.

“Our employees work tirelessly every day to ensure the safety of people in our care, and we will never tolerate any act of violence against anyone who works for the Department,” Boyd said.

In a statement, Corrections Benevolent Association president Benny Bosco said: “It may be a new year, but yesterday’s brutal and unprovoked attack on our corrections officer who was just doing his job shows that inmates have never been more daring to hit because they know that their violent crimes committed in prison will not have serious consequences.”

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