Inmates say officers handcuffed them, then broke their bones

At Central Prison, lawyers for inmates say, brutality by officers became routine.

Eight inmates in a federal lawsuit alleged that officers who worked inside Unit One – a solitary confinement block at the Raleigh prison – repeatedly committed “malicious and sadistic assaults” in hallways that aren’t monitored by surveillance cameras. All but one of them have won settlements from the state.

The prisoners say officers handcuffed them and then beat them so severely that they were left with broken bones and disfiguring injuries.

Jerome Peters, one of the inmates who won a settlement, says he was handcuffed from behind and was being escorted to his cell one day in 2012 when three officers assaulted him in a prison hallway that was not covered by video cameras.

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