Sentences with phrase «rikkers island prison»

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And still the Leninist dream lives on: in a hellhole like North Korea; in the island prison, Cuba; in what ought to be one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, Venezuela.

After serving 27 years, 18 of which were in the infamous Robben Island prison, Mandela was released when the ban on the ANC Party was lifted, becoming the country's first black president four years later.

A former Staten Island prison will have to wait a little longer before becoming a movie studio, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli determined.

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.

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.

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.

Nelson Mandela was released from a Robben Island prison in 1990, after being inside for twenty - seven years.

Also notice the mention of «Albatross  Island Prison».

In the 1930s set film, the English gent, 38, forms a curious bond with counterfeiter Louis, played by Rami Malek, when he's sent to the notorious Devil's Island prison colony in French Guiana after being framed for murder.

When Rook is to be moved by ship to a secure island prison, she accompanies him on the journey.

A new PBS NewsHour segment on Goldman Sachs / Rockefeller Foundation investment into social impact bonds and it's potential to reduce recidivism at Rikkers Island prison.

Fresh - air ferry ride Speed across the bay through the wind and salt spray as the ferry takes you from Pier 33 to one of the most infamous island prisons of all time.

Encompassing the entire area north and south of the Golden Gate Bridge, it includes the Presidio of San Francisco, a fort perched at the opening of San Francisco Bay for 218 years, Alcatraz, the island prison made famous in the movies, and Muir Woods National Monument, commemorating the father of the environmental movement in the US.

Highlights include the Presidio of San Francisco, a fort perched at the opening of San Francisco Bay for 218 years, Alcatraz, the island prison made famous in the movies, and Muir Woods National Monument, commemorating the father of the environmental movement in the US.

Though the developers don't plan to go the open - world route, the chance exists that the Joker will escape his island prison in the next game — the teaser trailer debuted at this year's Spike Video Game Awards basically promises as much, revealing a still recovering Joker admiring the willful destruction of private property from an abandoned building within the besieged city.

Perfect for island prisons or hilltop towers

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.

These hugely original photographs intimately record MacIndoe's downward trajectory from professional photographer with a flourishing career to struggling opiate addict, a journey of anguish and isolation that was to culminate in an arrest for drug possession and a four - month stint in New York's notorious Riker's Island prison and five months in an American immigration detention centre before he got clean.

Films, sound works, photographs and installations highlight «botanical nationalism» and other legacies of colonialism, plant migration, bio-piracy, flower diplomacy under apartheid, the role of classification and naming of plants as well as the garden planted by Mandela and his fellow inmates in Robben Island prison.

A new PBS NewsHour segment on Goldman Sachs / Rockefeller Foundation investment into social impact bonds and it's potential to reduce recidivism at Rikkers Island prison.

Not exact matches

A Long Island penny stockbroker who served 36 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.

The prisons, like the rest of the island, lost much of their electrical power even with backups.

Latino USA spoke to a man waiting outside the prison in Guayama, an area located on the hard - hit southern coast of the island.

(The federal Bureau of Prisons moved roughly 1,300 of the inmates in its one prison there to facilities off the island.)

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.

History and political buffs will want to see World Heritage site Robben Island, which was used as a maximum - security political prison under apartheid; former president Nelson Mandela was famously held there.

Although Robben Island is generally a tourist attraction, Fricker recommends speaking with a former prison guard, like author and guard for Mandela Christo Brand, after the experience.

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.

The only federal prison in Puerto Rico, MDC Guaynabo, is located in the northern part of the island and currently houses 1,389 inmates.

Mr. Atwal is the Sikh extremist who served prison time in Canada for attempting to murder a visiting Indian cabinet minister on Vancouver Island in 1986.

If they have never been anywhere else but the island and women have not been there for 1000 years then it is safe to assume they are getting each other pregnant prison style otherwise 1 of those statements is not true....

And if you sat in a lonely prison far from all men, or if you were placed out upon a desert island with only animals for company, if you genuinely will the Good, if you hold fast to God, then you are in unity with all men.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

But San Antonio prison, renowned on Margarita Island as a relatively tranquil place where even visitors can go for sinful weekend partying, is in a class of its own.

Over the weekend, a group of Rikers Island inmates saw a fellow inmate jump a prison guard and drag her into a locked bathroom.

When asked about Spira by SI's Martin F. Dardis, Caridi, now serving five to 15 years in an upstate New York prison for robbery, assault, coercion and criminal usury, said that Spira was «a degenerate gambler» who «hung around» the Long Island restaurant Caridi used to own.

The Whole Systems Design client list includes The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Cape Eleuthera Island School, Bahamas; Vermont State Prison Farm; and a significant installation at Teal Farm / LivingFuture in Vermont.

The former Staten Island district attorney replaced fellow GOP Congressman Michael Grimm, who went to prison for tax fraud, in a special election in 2015.

In Long Island's Eastern District, Singh faces more than 10 years in prison if convicted on a September 2015 indictment charging him with fraud and with bribing a former Oyster Bay Town employee.

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

O'Reilly on Twitter Monday called Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos a «prison punk» after the Long Island Republican provided a congratulatory quote on a press release from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the historic improvement of the state's general obligation bond rating.

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.

In 2015, Silver, D - Manhattan, and Skelos, R - Long Island, were tried and convicted of federal corruption charges and given long prison sentences.

«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.

Guy Molinari, a former Staten Island borough president and congressman, raged against federal judges after Diana Durand, a woman who pleaded guilty to funneling illegal campaign contributions to Mr. Grimm, was sentenced to three months in prison yesterday.

ALBANY — A prison reform group that has hounded Mayor de Blasio to shut down Rikers Island is now setting its sights on Gov. Cuomo.

Former New York State Senator Dean Skelos of Long Island was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison and a $ 500,000 fine over corruption charges, while serving as majority leader.

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.