Sentences with phrase «rikers island prison»
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.
Not exact matches
Bossio did several prison stints, the longest of which was 12 years at multiple prisons including New York's Rikers Island for a bank robbery.
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.
People brought up the Rikers Island story: in 2012 Goldman Sachs launched a $ 9.6 million social impact bond to lend the City of New York funds to reduce the rate of young criminals returning to prison.
Over the weekend, a group of Rikers Island inmates saw a fellow inmate jump a prison guard and drag her into a locked bathroom.
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
BRONX SUPREME COURT — Six of the correction officers convicted of the brutal beating of a Rikers Island inmate in 2012 were sentenced to prison time on Friday and will head back to Rikers Island for processing before getting sent upstate.
«At Rikers Island one day several years ago, officers entrusted with the duty to maintain order and discipline without resorting to force succumbed to their worst instincts and to the casual violence that is too often prevalent among the prison population these men were entrusted to watch,» he said.
ALBANY — A prison reform group that has hounded Mayor de Blasio to shut down Rikers Island is now setting its sights on Gov. Cuomo.
A corrections officer who worked at Rikers Island has been sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of ordering inmates to beat up two teenage prisoners in 2007.
For too long, a culture of violence has prevailed at Rikers Island, denying those within its walls the protections of the Constitution, rights to which all in this country, including prison inmates, are entitled,» Bharara said in a statement.
A Rikers Island inmate's association with the Bloods street gang has elevated the issue in the Bronx trial of nine prison guards accused in his 2012 assault.
A prominent New York City landlord, Steve Croman, was sentenced to a year in Rikers Island for tax and loan fraud, a rare prison term in such cases, according to the attorney general.
Faced with severe overcrowding on Rikers Island, Mayor Ed Koch developed a plan in 1987 to convert two former Staten Island Ferry boats into prison barges that would hold inmates off the coast of The Bronx, the New York Times reported at the time.
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.
William Sr. toiled round the clock (literally) as a subway driver, and the hours ate away at his health; Barbara was an educator who started a program at Rikers Island to help incarcerated girls transition out of prison.
«The Night Of» is an engrossing, all - encompassing whodunit that takes on a fuller dimension when Naz, denied bail, is transferred to Rikers Island and must fend for himself, choosing to ally with the prison alpha male, Freddy (Michael Kenneth Williams).
Behind These Prison Walls Two photographers and former corrections officers reflect on life at Rikers Island Jamel Shabazz and Lorenzo Steele, Jr. in Conversation with Zarinah Shabazz