Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Rikers Island inmate has been sentenced to five years in prison for Attempted Murder and for Assault in two separate slashing attacks on inmates.
District Attorney Clark said, “This defendant attacked the victims over petty, gang-related disputes, leaving them seriously injured. We continue to prosecute violence in our jails, even when the victims do not want to go forward. Anyone who commits violence will face accountability.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Corey Henry, 23, an alleged member of Folk Nation gang, was sentenced today to five years in prison for first-degree Assault in one incident and five years in prison for Attempted Murder in the second-degree in a second incident, by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy. He pleaded guilty to the charges on April 22, 2025. The sentences will run concurrent to each other and to a prison term for a Brooklyn murder conviction. The People requested that the sentences be consecutive.
According to the investigation, on August 3, 2023, in a dayroom of the Robert N. Davoren Center, the defendant, acting in concert, stabbed and slashed a fellow inmate repeatedly in the neck and face with a makeshift weapon, inflicting serious injury. NYC Department of Correction staff intervened and removed the victim, who required numerous stitches for his wounds.
According to the investigation, on October 27, 2023, in the Enhanced Supervision Housing within Rose M. Singer Center, the defendant along with three other inmates were seen on video surveillance approaching an inmate, slashing and stabbing him, leaving him seriously injured. DOC Officers intervened.
District Attorney Clark thanked BXDA Detective Investigator Tashana Phelps for her work on the case. District Attorney Clark thanked Department of Correction Central Intelligence Bureau Investigators Korab Hasangjekaj, James Ruiz, Jeffrey Rios, and Walter Holmes for their diligent work in the investigation.
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