Jail Workers Said to Face Charges in Rikers Inmate Beating A former high-ranking official of the New York City Department of Correction and nine current correction officers and supervisors will be charged on Wednesday in connection with the severe beating of an inmate on Rikers Island, the authorities said on Tuesday. Robert T. Johnson, the Bronx district attorney, said in a statement that the suspects would be arraigned in State Supreme Court, but provided few other details. A law enforcement official with knowledge of the case said that a former assistant chief of security in one of the jails on Rikers and two captains currently employed by the Correction Department were among those who would be charged. It was not immediately clear when the beating occurred. The law enforcement official, who insisted on anonymity because the charges had not been announced, said it happened after correction officers conducted a search of the jail after a stabbing. Officers took one inmate to a separate area of the complex and beat him severely, the official said. The inmate's injuries included two fractured eye sockets and a broken nose. "He was brutally beaten," the law enforcement official said. The authorities did not release the names of the suspects or the victim. They did not say whether the victim was a convict or awaiting trial. It was not clear whether all 10 people were directly involved in the beating.