Sentences with phrase «city jail complex»

In 2016, the main New York City jail complex, Rikers Island, ended the use of solitary confinement for 16 - to 18 - year - olds, and Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced an end to punitive solitary confinement for people under age 21.

Jenna is actually Erin Shields, one of the actors who regularly come to the New York City jail complex, change into orange prison - uniform...

A federal judge gave final approval to a far - reaching settlement agreement intended to remake Rikers Island by addressing pervasive brutality at the New York City jail complex.

A town - hall style meeting was held Monday night about the future of Rikers Island after some high - profile calls to shut down the city jail complex.

Now, a team of a dozen prosecutors and two investigators is stationed on the island inside the New York City jail complex, working out of a gray double - wide trailer.

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Six guards at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex were sentenced on Friday to prison for the 2012 beating of an inmate that left him with fractured eye sockets and a broken nose.

James Harris Jackson, 28, spoke with a reporter for the Daily News at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex.

De Blasio called the death of a mentally ill veteran in an overheated cell on Rikers Island «shocking and troubling» and vowed to make reforms to the city's sprawling jail complex, where violence has surged in recent years.

Rikers Island, New York City's violence - plagued jail complex, can be closed by 2024 — three years sooner than the city is planning, according to a panel led by Jonathan Lippman, the state's former chief jCity's violence - plagued jail complex, can be closed by 2024 — three years sooner than the city is planning, according to a panel led by Jonathan Lippman, the state's former chief jcity is planning, according to a panel led by Jonathan Lippman, the state's former chief judge

The jail complex on Rikers Island has failed to comply with minimum safety standards and has become so dangerous, according to the state Commission on Correction, that it can no longer be permitted to accept inmate transfers from outside New York City.

Ponte also told the NYC Council he didn't know city rules banned him from using his government car for jaunts out of state, wasn't alarmed about an underling potentially eavesdropping on investigators — and admitted he hasn't even read a key report on closing Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex he oversees.

For months, protesters hounded Mayor Bill de Blasio at town hall - style meetings and fund - raisers from Manhattan to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., demanding that he shut down New York City's main jail complex on Rikers Island.

Rikers Island, New York City's violence - plagued jail complex, can be closed by 2024 — three years sooner than the city is planning, according to a panel led by the state's former chief juCity's violence - plagued jail complex, can be closed by 2024 — three years sooner than the city is planning, according to a panel led by the state's former chief jucity is planning, according to a panel led by the state's former chief judge.

The legislation would bolster what the council did in 2014, when it passed rules booting immigration agents from its outpost on Rikers Island, New York City's main jail complex, and restricted the city's cooperation with the federal governmCity's main jail complex, and restricted the city's cooperation with the federal governmcity's cooperation with the federal government.

After being asked if he supported closing Rikers Island, Dietl said the city has to «fix what we got,» and added that he and de Blasio should stay in the jail complex.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today he would finally bow to the urgings of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and countless left - wing activists and formulate a plan to shutter the Rikers Island detention complex over the next 10 years — although the crucial work of creating a new, diffuse jail system will fall upon his successor, regardless of whether the liberal Democrat wins re-election this fall.

Mark - Viverito's call for Ponte to quit came after an investigation last month by the city's anti-graft watchdog agency found that he had been out of town for a quarter of 2016 as violence and corruption plagued the Rikers Island jail complex.

Before closing Rikers Island, the city must fix the culture of violence within the jail complex, according to JoAnne Page, president and CEO of the Fortune Society.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who also pushed de Blasio to close Rikers before he announced his plan to do so, said on Wednesday the decrease indicated that it may not take 10 years to shutter the jail complex.

De Blasio's plan to close the jail complex is expected to take 10 years and puts the onus of picking where the smaller jails will be located on the City Council.

The number of inmates held in solitary confinement on New York City's Rikers Island has fallen sharply, in what city officials say is a sign of a gradual turnaround at a jail complex marred by allegations of violence and abCity's Rikers Island has fallen sharply, in what city officials say is a sign of a gradual turnaround at a jail complex marred by allegations of violence and abcity officials say is a sign of a gradual turnaround at a jail complex marred by allegations of violence and abuse.

Her efforts have played out as the city continues its push to improve conditions at the jail complex, which is being overseen by a federal monitor as part of a legal settlement.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates neaCity Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates neacity's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city can close the notorious Rikers Island complex in less than 10 years, if Albany passes key criminal justice reforms, as he announced an agreement with the City Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail syscity can close the notorious Rikers Island complex in less than 10 years, if Albany passes key criminal justice reforms, as he announced an agreement with the City Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail sysCity Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail system.

As the drumbeat to shutter the city's main jail complex on Rikers Island continues, many are imagining what could replace the exclusive gated community...

New York City officials agreed to a plan that would eliminate the use of solitary confinement for all inmates 21 and younger, a move that would place the long - troubled Rikers Island complex at the forefront of national jail reform efforts.

Federal prosecutors plan to sue New York City over widespread civil rights violations in the handling of adolescent inmates at Rikers Island, making clear their dissatisfaction with the city's progress in reining in brutality by guards and improving conditions at the jail compCity over widespread civil rights violations in the handling of adolescent inmates at Rikers Island, making clear their dissatisfaction with the city's progress in reining in brutality by guards and improving conditions at the jail compcity's progress in reining in brutality by guards and improving conditions at the jail complex.

And Mr. de Blasio said he would spend $ 170 million to build a new correctional center for adolescents, which would allow the city to remove the roughly 180 adolescents housed on Rikers Island from the troubled jail complex.

On a rainy afternoon at the Rikers Island Jail Complex in New York City this week, five men and one woman wearing tan uniforms sat in front of chess boards surrounded by an audience of correction officers and fellow inmates.

He said that de Blasio was being disingenuous claiming that the city's record low arrests being behind the need to close the massive Rikers Island jail complex.

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 jail complex.

Bronx elected officials and South Bronx residents were taken by surprise by Mayor de Blasio's announcement the NYPD tow pound at 320 Concord Avenue will be the home of one of four new city jails to replace the aging Rikers Island jail complex.

And he proceeded to blast the conditions at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the plan to close the Rikers Island jail complex in 10 years as too long of a timeline — both clear jabs at de Blasio — and said he would like to see an end to cash bail.

An inmate tied with a U.S. Chess Federation grandmaster at the first official tournament at New York City's Rikers Island Jail Complex, where the game is part of programming designed to educate and reduce idleness.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, in her State of the City speech, offered up criminal justice reforms Thursday that she said could sharply reduce Rikers Island's population and realize the «dream» of closing the violence - marred jail complex.

Nixon is a staunch ally of de Blasio, who often feuds with the governor on various issues, including the city's struggling subway system and the plan to close the Rikers Island jail complex.

The number of personal injury claims filed against New York City for episodes at the Rikers Island jail complex and other city correctional facilities surged last year in what the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, called a troubling indication of a continuing plague of violence and mismanagemCity for episodes at the Rikers Island jail complex and other city correctional facilities surged last year in what the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, called a troubling indication of a continuing plague of violence and mismanagemcity correctional facilities surged last year in what the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, called a troubling indication of a continuing plague of violence and mismanagemcity comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, called a troubling indication of a continuing plague of violence and mismanagement.

Even before the week began, Mr. de Blasio sought to dampen a potential outcry over his plan to eventually close the Rikers Island prison complex by assuring Staten Islanders that he would not build a new jail there, as recommended by an independent City Council commission.

Last month, de Blasio announced plans to close the notorious prison complex in a decade and reduce the city's jail population by about half — down to 5,000 — to make it happen.

The top investigator at the New York Correction Department resigned on Friday under pressure from city leaders who are facing a federal mandate to regain control of the Rikers Island jail complex, where widespread brutality and corruption by guards routinely go unpunished.

But the city's continued low crime numbers led him, more recently, to believe the jail complex could be closed.

Rikers Island, in the East River across from La Guardia Airport, serves as the principal jail complex for New York City.

Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed on Friday to close the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, which has spawned federal investigations, brought waves of protests and became a byword for brutality, in a move he said was intended to end an era of mass incarceration in New York City.

As the drumbeat to shutter the city's main jail complex on Rikers Island continues, many are imagining what could replace the exclusive gated community and the island's 413 acres.

DOI Commissioner Mark G. Peters said, «The Rikers Island Prosecution Bureau is an important step forward in addressing the violence and corruption that takes place at the City's main jail complex.

It also comes amid repeated calls from criminal justice advocates to close the city's largest jail complex at Rikers Island, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted earlier this month as «intolerable.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference this afternoon on Rikers Island, the City's main jail complex, announcing the recent end of punitive segregation for 16 and 17 year old inmates.

Cuomo again slammed the city's 10 - year timeline for shutting down the troubled jail complex at Rikers, calling it either «gross incompetence» or «a statement that you just don't care» - as well as unequal funding distribution for schools.

But closing Rikers has gained political momentum over the last few days since the Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, endorsed in her State of the City address the idea of mothballing the unloved complex that covers the more than 400 - acre island, and replacing it with an archipelago of neighborhood jails.

It began as a «dream» on Thursday, in a speech by the New York City Council speaker: closing the Rikers Island jail complex.