Sentences with phrase «island jail cell»

Now Travis is putting her own spin on the affair as she sits in a Rikers Island jail cell, unable to post $ 1 million bail on grand - larceny charges.

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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.

This was one of my main frustrations on the island especially at night as many bars charge a few baht to use their bathrooms that resemble jail cells sans toilet paper.

Garden tour: While Alcatraz prisoners paced in their jail cells, the prison guards and their families formed a gardening association, imported topsoil from nearby Angel Island and exotic plants from around the world, and set out to make the islandIsland and exotic plants from around the world, and set out to make the islandisland grow.

On the other, the legacy of apartheid remains: Khayelitsha, a partially informal township on the Cape Flats and one of the poorest areas in Cape Town, is still home to 2.4 million people of whom nearly 100 percent are black and young, and some half of whom live in shacks; every day, tourists visiting the Robben Island Museum take a bare - bones bus from Nelson Mandela's onetime jail cell to a rocky outcrop where the gulls» squalls convey a feeling of intense loneliness.