Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a female inmate on Rikers
Island has been sentenced to six and a half to eight years in prison with eight years post- release
supervision after pleading guilty to sexually abusing one inmate and assaulting two inmates and
six NYC Department of Correction Officers on Rikers Island.
District Attorney Clark said, “This defendant sexually brutalized a cellmate in view of a
surveillance camera, beat another inmate, and caused a third inmate to break a wrist. She also
attacked six Correction Officers. Now she will be incarcerated in state prison for committing so
much violence in jail.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Alexandria James, 24, was sentenced today by
Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio to six and a half to eight years in prison and eight
years post-release supervision. She must register as a sex offender and she voluntarily waived
her right to appeal. James pleaded guilty on October 5, 2018 to third-degree Aggravated Sexual
Abuse and Attempted Assault in the second degree for attacks on female inmates, and to
Attempted Assault in the Second Degree for assaults on officers.
The defendant, while housed in a segregated cell with another inmate in the Rose M. Singer
Center, subjected the inmate to two days of assaults, culminating in penetrating her while
wearing a makeshift phallic device. The cell was under video observation and all the incidents
were recorded.
The defendant beat an inmate and tore hair out of her head after gaining access to a locked
area where the inmate was working. Also, the defendant, believing an inmate had tried to have
her removed from the housing area, pushed the inmate and she fell and broke her wrist. That
inmate sent a letter to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, which led the Rikers Island
Prosecution Bureau to begin an investigation.
The defendant shoved, kicked, hit or choked six Correction Officers in separate incidents.
District Attorney Clark thanked Investigator Scott Frank of DOC Correction Intelligence
Bureau, Detective Investigators Timothy Gernon and Monisara Brahm of the Bronx DA’s Squad
and Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Davis for their assistance in this case.
