NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A correctional officer was hospitalized after suffering severe facial injuries from a brutal attack by an inmate inside a Manhattan jail the official's union confirmed on Tuesday.
Elias Husamudeen, the president of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association said the officer worked at the Manhattan Detention Complex next to Manhattan Criminal Court Monday at the time he was "brutally assaulted" by an inmate.
"An inmate housed at MDC with a violent history and three warrants for his arrest brutally assaulted one of our correction officers simply for doing his job," Husamudeen said. "The officer sustained five broken orbitals in his eye socket and a broken nose and will be undergoing surgery this afternoon."
An officer suffered a broken nose and a broken orbital bone that also required surgery, after an inmate at MDC which is also known as the Tombs pushed him down a flight of stairs earlier this month officials said.
Husamudeen said the violence against his officers shows that simply having a borough jail is not enough to decrease the violence offficers face every day.
"Closing Rikers is not enough," he said. "We need to make the jails safer today and we need to ensure that inmates who commit violent assaults like this one are removed from the general population."
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