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Nassau Jail Union Is Alarmed by Rise In Gang-Tied Slashings

By MARK TOOR
Posted 4/27/15

Nassau County Correctional Center inmates have slashed each other four times between mid-January and early April, the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association said last week. All four attacks are believed to be gang-related, the union said.

“In my 25 years we’ve never had more slashings in that amount of time,” the union’s president, John Jaronczyk, said in an interview.

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