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New York Jail Guards Charged with Raping Prisoners
Loaded on June 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2000, page 22
New York Jail Guards Charged With Raping Prisoners
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Staffing.
Location:
New York.
On January 26, 2000, Westchester county, New York, jail guards Carlos Aldarondo, 33, Javier Corona, 31, Michael Downey, 39 and Robert Escalera, 39, were charged in Westchester county court with assorted felony charges stemming from their rape and sexual abuse of women …
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