New York Daily News
NEW YORK — Two officers with the Department of Correction’s Emergency Service Unit were badly slashed by a notoriously violent detainee late Wednesday on Rikers Island, city and union officials said.
The eruption of violence began just after 4 p.m., when a man held in the North Infirmary Command started a fire in his cell. Heavy smoke poured into the jail. As uniformed staff cleared the area of detainees, the two officers were attacked, officials said…