A nearly 500-pound Rikers Island inmate was forced to wear bed sheets when his clothes were stolen by another prisoner — because his jailers had “nothing in my size,” he said in a claim filed with the city Comptroller’s Office.
Freddie Harvin, locked up on arson charges at the Anna M. Kross Center, said an inmate swiped his entire prison wardrobe — two pairs of pants, three pairs of underwear, four shirts and three pairs of socks — after he went to the hospital for two days on May 21.
“I am a very large man weighing (480) four hundred and eighty pounds,” Harvin wrote in the claim. “My clothes are really irreplaceable and the Dept. of Corrections has nothing in my size and I am walking around in sheets.”
Harvin — who was indicted on arson and other charges for allegedly trying to burn down a Crown Heights home last September — claims $30 of his commissary money and a Sony radio were also taken in the alleged raid.
The 6-foot-1 Harvin, who has been locked up since last October, may have slimmed down during his jailhouse stay — he tipped the scales at 520 pounds at the time of his arrest, according to the DOC.
A spokesperson for the Comptroller’s Office said it “doesn’t comment on pending claims or ongoing litigation.”