An officer who broke his baton hitting a prisoner 35 times, even after the man was handcuffed, was not fired.
In dozens of documented cases involving severe injuries of prisoners, including three deaths, the agency did not even try to discipline officers, state records show.
The records probably reflect only a fraction of the violence guards have inflicted in New York’s corrections system, experts said.
These records do not detail prisoner attacks on officers, which the department and the guards’ union said have increased in recent years.
A key reason the prison system finds it so hard to get rid of guards is the contract the state signed in 1972 with the union.