Sentences with phrase «island jail complex»

Later, she formed a commission to study ways to close the Rikers Island jail complex, eventually compelling Mr. de Blasio to endorse the idea.

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

Earlier this week, the two argued over the timeline to close the Rikers Island jail complex.

Her other initiatives are a $ 6 million plan to rehabilitate female inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex; Sisters Thrive, which encourages mental health literacy in the black community; and NYCHOPE, a web - pased portal for domestic violence survivors.

Within days of the interrogation, Ms. Robles interviewed Mr. Juárez at the Rikers Island jail complex.

Michael Jacobson is the executive director of the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance and is involved in efforts to close the Rikers Island jail complex.

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.

Rikers Island jail complex went into lockdown Wednesday evening after a prisoner escaped, according to officials.

He also reiterated plans to upgrade JFK Airport in Queens and criticized Rikers Island jail complex, though he stopped short of calling for its closure.

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 mismanagement.

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.

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.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration said Wednesday it will demand quick, efficient fixes to conditions at the Rikers Island jail complex and to four upstate jails that a watchdog commission has deemed the worst local jails in the state.

And earlier this month, she unveiled a $ 6 million plan to help rehabilitate female inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex; Sisters Thrive, a national volunteer effort to promote mental health literacy in the black community; and NYCHOPE, a web - based portal for domestic violence survivors.

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.

EAST ELMHURST — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday released his plan to close the troubled Rikers Island jail complex within 10 years, cautioning that it isn't a «quick fix.»

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 complex.

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.

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.

A new bureau inside the troubled Rikers Island jail complex has changed the way the Bronx district attorney handles crimes by inmates and visitors.

For the last four years, the Council was led by Melissa Mark - Viverito, who used the position to push reforms to the criminal justice system and pressure the mayor to back the closing of the Rikers Island jail complex.

A federal judge on Wednesday approved landmark reforms at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex that will resolve claims that guards regularly used unnecessary force against inmates.

Closing Rikers Island The debate moment that got the most attention was Stringer declaring that the Rikers Island jail complex should be closed in three years, far short of the ten - year timeline announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a fellow Democrat also favored to win reelection this year.

For Ms. Mark - Viverito, passing the legislation would provide a capstone to her reform record that includes new laws to create civil penalties for certain infractions, like public urination, and pushing for the closure of the Rikers Island jail complex, a stance that helped pressure Mr. de Blasio to agree to close the facility over the next decade.

Brutal assaults inside Rikers Island jail complex involved 29 former and current inmates attacking correction officers and other inmates.

In a June 20, 2014, file photo, the Rikers Island jail complex stands in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background.

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.

Rikers Island jail complex went into lockdown last night after a prisoner — Naquan Hill, 24 — escaped, according to officials.

Hoping to accelerate the closing of the Rikers Island jail complex, NYC officials announced that they have now chosen sites for four new jails, one in each borough except Staten Island.

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

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.

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Rikers Island is one of the country's largest jail complexes.

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.

Although NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio last March laid out a timeline of up to 10 years for closing the Rikers Island jail, the state Commission of Correction, called the schedule unreasonable, given the rise in «violent incidents and degrading conditions» at the complex.

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 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 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 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.

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.

Mayor Bill de Blasio declared on Thursday that Rikers Island «deeply needs a culture change» and called ending the pervasive violence at the jail complex a top priority of his administration, acknowledging that he had previously underestimated the level of dysfunction there.

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 abuse.

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 nearby.

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.

A commission headed by former chief judge Jonathan Lippman, which recommended shutting down the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, said there should be smaller jails in each borough, near their courthouses.

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 system.