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Termination recommended for two correction officers found guilty of using excessive force on an inmate

Termination recommended for two correction officers found guilty of using excessive force on an inmate
Dept. of Corrections v Rodney Williams and Alexander Williams,* OATH Index Nos. 2215/08 and 2216/08

Administrative Law Judge John B. Spooner found two correction officers searched an inmate's cell without authorization and that one of the officers used impermissible force against the inmate. The ALJ also found that the two officers also failed to seek medical attention for the inmate and filed false reports about the incident. Spooner recommended that both be terminated from their positions.

The full text of the decision is posted on the Internet at:
http://www.citylaw.org/OATH/08_Cases/08-2215.pdf

* Charges involving the same incidents were also served upon a third correction officer, Emanuel Archibald, [OATH Index No. 2214/09] but Archibald?s case was severed from the two cases involving the Williams.

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).