Sentences with phrase «city correction department»

A New York City Correction Department bus entering Rikers Island.

William Clemons, right, chief of the New York City Correction Department, with Joseph Ponte, the correction commissioner, at a meeting in July.

In a major shake - up at the New York City Correction Department, three high - ranking officials, including the top uniformed officer, are stepping down amid mounting criticism over the handling of violence and corruption at Rikers Island.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials asked the city Correction Department to detain 944 inmates in city jails between October 2014 and September 2015.

Despite repeated promises by the New York City Correction Department to tighten security at Rikers Island, an investigator posing as a guard last month was able to smuggle in heroin, pills, marijuana, vodka and a razor blade, a city inquiry found.

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The New York City Department of Investigation disclosed last fall that their supervisors urged pregnant women correction officers in New York City — mostly minority women — to obtain abortions («Women Given Cruelest Choice Now Fight Back,» New York Times, Oct. 21, 1989) The lower levels of the criminal justice system receive little funding, and New York City prisons are crowded.

New York City has agreed to pay about $ 1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two women who claimed they had been repeatedly raped and sexually abused by the same correction officer at Rikers Island, a Law Department spokesman said.

The COIB disposition shows Brann paid her initial fine for misusing the city - owned car on Oct. 3, the same day de Blasio announced he was officially appointing her as Department of Correction commissioner.

Donna Myrill, who heads the Queens district attorney's treatment court programs, will be investigations commissioner; Robert Cleary, a city health department chief contract officer, will be procurement compliance director; and Charles Campisi, a retired NYPD internal affairs chief, will be corrections commissioner.

So far, de Blasio has addressed the ongoing problems with violence and corruption at the city jail with a set of reforms led by Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, including ending solitary confinement for the island's youngest inmates.

She reimbursed the Department of Correction $ 493.67 for the mileage, and forfeited eight days of personal leave, according to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board, which announced the penalties Tuesday.

Having served 25 years in two stints with New York City's Department of Correction, the last three years as deputy commissioner of operations before his resignation in January, Toulon at least has paper credentials.

Department of Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann and eight other senior DOC officials were fined Tuesday for misusing their city - owned cars, more than six months after a city investigation into widespread misuse of the vehicles at the department forced then - Commissioner Joe Ponte to leave hisDepartment of Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann and eight other senior DOC officials were fined Tuesday for misusing their city - owned cars, more than six months after a city investigation into widespread misuse of the vehicles at the department forced then - Commissioner Joe Ponte to leave hisdepartment forced then - Commissioner Joe Ponte to leave his position.

«Any disregard of City rules and regulations was an inadvertent misunderstanding and will not recur,» Department of Correction spokesman Peter Thorne said in a statement to POLITICO.

Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte told the City Council Monday he had simply «misunderstood» the city's policy regarding the use of city - issued vehicles, two weeks after the Department of Investigation revealed Ponte and other top department officials had used the cars for perDepartment of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte told the City Council Monday he had simply «misunderstood» the city's policy regarding the use of city - issued vehicles, two weeks after the Department of Investigation revealed Ponte and other top department officials had used the cars for personal City Council Monday he had simply «misunderstood» the city's policy regarding the use of city - issued vehicles, two weeks after the Department of Investigation revealed Ponte and other top department officials had used the cars for personal city's policy regarding the use of city - issued vehicles, two weeks after the Department of Investigation revealed Ponte and other top department officials had used the cars for personal city - issued vehicles, two weeks after the Department of Investigation revealed Ponte and other top department officials had used the cars for perDepartment of Investigation revealed Ponte and other top department officials had used the cars for perdepartment officials had used the cars for personal use.

The city will use three existing Department of Correction (DOC) facilities in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, as well as a new site located at 320 Concord Avenue in the Bronx.

He served two stints with the New York City Department of Correction, the first 22 years as a corrections officer, retiring as captain, and the last three years as deputy commissioner of operations before resigning in January.

Mayor de Blasio knew as early as last Wednesday that the city's Correction Department was under investigation for allegedly spying on other probers looking into a travel scandal involving his agency commissioner.

But by Wednesday afternoon a sign reading «City of New York Department of Correction Training Academy Annex» was hanging on the Kew Gardens building.

At 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Women's Caucus and advocates celebrate the passage of the nation's first menstrual equity policy to make pads and tampons free and readily available at public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Albanese has criticized the mayor for management failures related to a wide variety of city agencies and services, including the school system and Department of Correction.

The commissioner of New York City's Correction Department, Joseph Ponte, center, leaving City Hall after testifying before City Council members on Monday.

2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of righDepartment of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of righdepartment's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»

The commissioner of New York City's Correction Department, Joseph Ponte, removed his agency's head of internal affairs on Monday and placed him on modified duty, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

Nine current and one former city Department of Correction employees are expected to be charged Wednesday.

After a lengthy call - and - response, the newest employees of the New York City Department of Correction were asked one final question:

He is running against Errol Toulon, a former captain for the New York City Department of Correction.

Amid rising violence and several high - profile incidents — including the deaths of inmates and the slashing of a correction officer — Rikers Island has been under a harsh spotlight from prosecutors, the city's Department of Investigation, Mr. Stringer, and others.

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requeCity's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requecity council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

Introspective lessons like this one are one way the Department of Correction is trying to stem the tide of surging violence in the city's jails on Rikers Island, as part of a 14 - point plan unveiled by Commissioner Joseph Ponte earlier this year.

This suit seeks to remedy the violations that occurred at Pan American and ensure that the New York City Department of Education protects its employees» civil rights in the future,» Bharara said in announcing the lawsuit, which came a day after his office charged the city's Correction Union President Norman Seabrook with fraud and corruptCity Department of Education protects its employees» civil rights in the future,» Bharara said in announcing the lawsuit, which came a day after his office charged the city's Correction Union President Norman Seabrook with fraud and corruptcity's Correction Union President Norman Seabrook with fraud and corruption.

The Department of Correction is the city agency that has «suffered the most neglect and needs the most support,» said the mayor.

At 9 a.m., before a 10 a.m. joint hearing where members of the NYC Council's Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services and Committee on Health will receive testimony about health care in city jails, New York City Jails Action Coalition supporters and people who received medical treatment while in jail or prison will hold a news conference to criticize Brentwood, Tennessee, subcontractor Corizon Health Inc. and the city Department of Correction, City Hall steps, Manhatcity jails, New York City Jails Action Coalition supporters and people who received medical treatment while in jail or prison will hold a news conference to criticize Brentwood, Tennessee, subcontractor Corizon Health Inc. and the city Department of Correction, City Hall steps, ManhatCity Jails Action Coalition supporters and people who received medical treatment while in jail or prison will hold a news conference to criticize Brentwood, Tennessee, subcontractor Corizon Health Inc. and the city Department of Correction, City Hall steps, Manhatcity Department of Correction, City Hall steps, ManhatCity Hall steps, Manhattan.

Norman Seabrook, president of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, delivered a 20 - minute tirade against City Hall at today's DOCs graduation, de Blasio, (who had already left), and the department's top brass — most of whom were sharing the stage with him when he spoke.

The column said that the justice department's Aug. 4 report condemned violent abuses at the Rikers Island prison complex during three years of Schriro's 2009 - to - 2013 tenure the city's corrections commissioner.

Schriro has been commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction since September of 2009, and previously served as a special adviser to former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on immigration and customs enforcement.

The City Council is introducing a package of bills on Tuesday to require the city's Department of Correction to provide detailed reports on inmates» demographic information and the department's use - of - force policy, and to create a crisis intervention plan at the troubled Rikers Island jail compCity Council is introducing a package of bills on Tuesday to require the city's Department of Correction to provide detailed reports on inmates» demographic information and the department's use - of - force policy, and to create a crisis intervention plan at the troubled Rikers Island jail compcity's Department of Correction to provide detailed reports on inmates» demographic information and the department's use - of - force policy, and to create a crisis intervention plan at the troubled Rikers Island jaiDepartment of Correction to provide detailed reports on inmates» demographic information and the department's use - of - force policy, and to create a crisis intervention plan at the troubled Rikers Island jaidepartment's use - of - force policy, and to create a crisis intervention plan at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex.

Last August, the New York City Council approved the bill, which requires corrections officials to publish regular reports posted on the Department of Corrections website about who is in solitary confinement in city jails and at Rikers IslCity Council approved the bill, which requires corrections officials to publish regular reports posted on the Department of Corrections website about who is in solitary confinement in city jails and at Rikers Islcity jails and at Rikers Island.

Mayor de Blasio says he's galled by the misuse of city resources, but then immediately defended Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte on NY1.

Mr. Toulan is retired after spending 22 years with the New York City Department of Correction, where he served as a supervisor and instructor at the Correction Academy, the firearms and tactics unit, the emergency service unit and the Office of Compliance Consultants.

Mayor de Blasio says he's galled by the misuse of city resources - but he's continuing to defend and pay top Department of Correction staffers accused of doing so.

A Department of Correction spokeswoman insisted any attempts to regulate Valentin's access to the city's jails was tied to existing rules and regulations.

Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.

Those include a lead paint scandal at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the city's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trCity Housing Authority (NYCHA), the city's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trcity's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trcity vehicles for personal trips.

«We no longer have that for 18 to 21 year olds in New York City,» said Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte.

New York City Department of Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann and eight other senior DOC officials were fined for misusing their city - owned cars, six months after an investigation into misuse of vehicles forced then - Commissioner Joseph Ponte to resCity Department of Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann and eight other senior DOC officials were fined for misusing their city - owned cars, six months after an investigation into misuse of vehicles forced then - Commissioner Joseph Ponte to rescity - owned cars, six months after an investigation into misuse of vehicles forced then - Commissioner Joseph Ponte to resign.

The department currently trains in a mall storefront in Queens, something correction officers and City Council members have insisted is unacceptable for a department the city is working so hard to refCity Council members have insisted is unacceptable for a department the city is working so hard to refcity is working so hard to reform.

Elias started his career in 1988 as a Correction Officer with the New York City Department of Correction.

Instead, offenders would be placed in specialized juvenile detention facility certified by the Administration for Children's Services and the state's Office of Children and Family Services, and in conjunction with the state's Commission of Correction and the New York City Department of Corrections.

A city Department of Investigation spokeswoman said more than two dozen correction staff have been arrested on charges of smuggling contraband and assaulting inmates since 2014.