Ten-year prison term for Rikers Island detainee in unprovoked stabbing of NYC correction officer

Dennis Applewhite, 29, pleaded guilty Feb. 7 to a charge of attempted assault in the first degree for the unprovoked attack on the officer on Halloween last year in a protective custody unit in the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island.

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