NEW YORK – An administrative law judge on Monday recommended that six New York City jail guards be fired for the brutal 2012 beating of a handcuffed Rikers Island inmate in a now-shuttered solitary confinement dorm for mentally ill prisoners. The beating left 27-year-old Robert Hinton with a broken nose, fractured back and a bloodied, badly swollen face. [read the full story here]
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