Inmate gouges his eye out at New York City’s Rikers Island jail in front of horrified corrections officers and does it again after doctors reinserted it
- An inmate gouged his eye out in front horrified corrections officers at New York City’s Rikers Island jail over the weekend
- The unidentified inmate from the Anna M. Kross Center at Rikers, which has a Methadone detox, gouged his eye out as the officers begged him to stop
- He was rushed to a jail clinic for mental observation. His eye, still attached to the optic nerve, was reinserted by doctors
- But the inmate, somehow with possibly a plastic fork, gouged his eye out a second time, the sources said
An inmate at New York’s Rikers Island jail gouged his eye out in front horrified corrections officers this weekend.
The unidentified man, lodged at the Anna M. Kross Center at Rikers, which has a Methadone detoxification unit, gouged his eye out as the corrections officers begged him to stop, say sources.
The officer moved in and held his upper body and then rushed him on a gurney to a prison clinic for mental observation.
An inmate at New York’s Rikers Island jail (pictured) reportedly gouged his eye out in front horrified corrections officers over the weekend
The unidentified man, lodged at the Anna M. Kross Center at Rikers, which has a Methadone detoxification unit, gouged his eye out as the corrections officers begged him to stop, say sources
His eye, still attached to the optic nerve, was reinserted by doctors, the sources said, but the inmate, somehow with possibly a plastic fork, gouged his eye out a second time.
The horrific episode was told by sources to the Daily News.
The news outlet reported that a reporter viewed an image of the inmate lying on a medical bed with his eyelids closed.
The news outlet’s reporter also viewed a second image of the inmate’s eyeball inside a cup held by a hand wearing a blue surgical glove.
A spokesperson from the city’s Department of Corrections was not immediately available when DailyMail.com reached out for more information.
The corrections department runs 11 inmate facilities, 8 of which are located on Rikers.
During Fiscal Year 2018, the Department handled over 49,000 admissions and managed an average daily inmate population of approximately 8,900 individuals.
Corrections runs 11 inmate facilities, 8 of which are located on Rikers (pictured)