Sentences with phrase «island prison complex»
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.
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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.
Both Sanchez and Abreu support the closure of the Rikers Island prison complex, an issue that has come up in districts across New York City and particularly in the Bronx.
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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.
Demonstrators near Rikers Island demanded the prison be included on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's list of «symbols of hate» facing possible shutdown or removal because they said a descendant of the complex's namesake was a notorious slave - catcher
NEW YORK CITY — The culture of violence and neglect on Rikers Island is so severe and deeply ingrained that the only solution is to close the notorious prison complex by 2027 and raze its buildings to the ground, a plan that could save the city more than $ 1 billion per year, according to a new report.
De Blasio was met outside the library by a group of protesters who want the mayor to close the prison complex at Rikers Island.
While Lara Croft's first expedition uncovers an island prison run by years of stranded inmates, she also discovers a landscape that abandons the idea of singular globetrotting digs offering a sterile glimpse into frozen pockets of time, instead uncovering a complex web, where the strings of history intertwine around a mystery beating a rhythm of madness heard across the entire island.