Gangbangers in prison riot

Trinitarios wreck NYC pen

More than a half-dozen Trinitarios gang members went berserk in a city jail on Saturday, smashing windows and toppling furniture after one of them learned a friend would be moved to another facility, sources told The Post.

The riot on the 800-bed Vernon C. Bain Center jail barge in The Bronx was so violent that a correction officer who tried to break it up using pepper spray wound up having to flee for her life, the sources said.

Photos of the aftermath (above), obtained by The Post, show broken windows, smashed glass covering metal tabletops, toppled heavy equipment and wrecked computers and other jail property.

The 4 p.m. free-for-all was subdued by the jail’s Emergency Service Unit.

The inmates involved now face destruction-ofproperty charges.

“This is yet another example of how Commissioner Brann has lost control of the jails,” Elias Husamudeen, president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, said of city Department of Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann.

“She refuses to bolster security, and she continues to execute the mayor’s failed policies. As correction officers, we deserve better.”

Correction spokesman Peter Thorne countered, “Safety is the depart- ment’s primary concern, and our officers worked to halt the incident to ensure the safety of their fellow officers and detainees.

“The inmates involved are now in punitive segregation or other restrictive housing units. We are also working with the Bronx DA to rearrest these inmates.”

The Trinitarios are a violent, predominantly Dominican New York-based gang that has been in the news since 12 of its members were indicted for last month’s gruesome, mistaken-identity hacking death of 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz in The Bronx.

The murder and its prologue and aftermath were caught on video.