Sentences with phrase «assaults by inmates»

The city has struggled to contain violence at Rikers, but a City Hall spokeswoman said today that uses of force with serious injury dropped 23 percent in 2015, and assaults by inmates on staff with serious injury dropped by 11 percent in 2015.

«There may be a few that react with what you might think is excessive force,» said Seabrook, «but in defense of an officer being assaulted by an inmate, a correction officer must use whatever force is necessary to terminate the assault.»

The Correction Officers Benevolent Association last month filed a federal suit of its own, alleging inmate violence is up 18 percent since de Blasio's decree and street gang members in custody are organizing against guards, who have been «punched, kicked, slashed, splashed with urine, feces or saliva, stabbed, held hostage, beaten severely or sexually assaulted by inmates.»

Pictures of the four correction officers assaulted by inmates in NYC in the last five weeks.

Workplace assault claim: Prison Officers Association member, Marc Laycock, was violently assaulted by an inmate when working alone.

Not exact matches

The last study released by the Department of Justice was in 2001, and it found that the rate of inmate - on - inmate assaults was 38 percent higher at private prisons than at public prisons.

Ms. Clark's predecessor, Robert T. Johnson, had been criticized by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Correction Officers Benevolent Union for delays in prosecuting cases against inmates, even as slashings and assaults continued to rise.

A nationwide study found that assaults on guards by inmates were 49 percent more frequent in private prisons than in government - run prisons.

Weeks after a federal report chronicled the assaults of teenage inmates by guards at Rikers Island, Florence Finkle, the commissioner overseeing investigations at the jail, resigned.

The Times uncovered details on scores of assaults at Rikers Island through interviews with current and former inmates, correction officers and mental health clinicians at the jail, and by reviewing hundreds of pages of legal, investigative and jail records.

Records show officers stood by, and one even watched, during a prisoner's assault on another inmate in 2014 at the Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie.

The Elmira Correctional Facility was placed on lockdown following the assault of an inmate by two other inmates.

As a profession, corrections work is one of the most stressful in law enforcement, COs face constant risk of being assaulted or maimed by inmates

The bill, which Mr. de Blasio says he supports, would compel the department to publish quarterly reports that include information about the number of inmates in solitary confinement, their length of stay and whether they were injured, sexually or physically assaulted, or subjected to use of force by correction officers.

The investigator, Florence L. Finkle, is leaving less than a month after a damning federal inquiry chronicled assaults on teenage inmates by guards at Rikers, and criticized the division she oversaw as «ineffectual,» «understaffed» and biased in favor of correction officers.

They're twice as likely as other inmates to be abused by staff or other prisoners; five times more likely to be sexually assaulted; and eight times more likely to commit suicide.

There were 88 stabbings and slashings by inmates and 752 assaults on uniformed staff members reported in the 2014 fiscal year, compared with 34 and 500, respectively, four years earlier.

The recent analysis released by Senator Klein also revealed an increasingly dangerous environment overall inside New York's prisons as inmate - on - inmate assaults continue to skyrocket as well.

Inmate assaults on staff increased by 8.3 percent between July and November 2016 compared with the same five months in 2015 — and again, were nearly double the comparable period in 2012.

Lauzon, [2007] A.J. No. 768 (QB): Appeal by accused from conviction for assault — Appellant charged with assaulting complainant at remand centre — Complainant did not testify at trial — Officer's evidence only referred to complainant's last name — No evidence adduced that at time of offence, there was only one inmate with complainant's last name — Crown specified complainant's first name in charge --

In one recent case out of the Southern District of New York, Amador v. Andrews, an inmate filed a grievance alleging that she was sexually assaulted by a guard.

Recent examples of our work in discrimination law include suing an immigration detention centre for racial discrimination, challenging the police for stopping and searching people based on race, challenging discriminatory bail conditions applied to people wrongly arrested during the London riots, failing to protect a homosexual prisoner from assault by homophobic inmates and persuading a school to apologise and train relevant staff after it excluded a pupil with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

The number of inmate - on - inmate assaults fell at the Ottawa - Carleton Detention Centre last year, although incidents still occur on average more than once every two days, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.