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A city correction officer had to get 17 stitches on his face after being “stomped out” by an inmate while delivering meals on Rikers Island, sources and union officials said Thursday.
The officer was attacked after he intervened when an inmate — identified by sources as 47-year-old Edwin Duclosel — threatened a fellow CO inside the troubled lockup’s Anna M. Kross Center just after 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, according to Department of Correction and union officials.
The guard tried to calm Duclosel down, but the inmate allegedly turned on him and lashed out, the correction officer’s union said.
The inmate allegedly punched the guard numerous times and kicked him in the face after he fell to the floor, a union spokesman said.
Gruesome photos obtained by The Post show four sets of stitches above and below the officer’s right eye.
He was treated at a hospital for cuts to his face and a broken cheekbone and ha been released by Thursday, according to the union and a DOC spokesman.
Duclosel has been held at the problem-plagued jail without bail on felony assault charges since November 2022.
“This heinous attack was completely unprovoked and this individual was immediately rearrested,” James Boyd, NYC DOC Deputy Commissioner of Public Information, said in a statement.
“Our officers work tirelessly every day to keep individuals in our care safe, and any act of violence towards anyone who works for the Department will never be tolerated,” Boyd said.
In a statement, Correction Officers Benevolent Association president Benny Bosco said: “It may be a new year, but yesterday’s brutal and unprovoked assault on our Correction Officer, who was simply doing his job, shows that the inmates are as emboldened as ever to lash out because they know there are no meaningful consequences for their violent crimes committed in jail.”
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