Sentences with phrase «beatings by inmates»

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He attributed the ability of some of the inmates to beat the checkpoint to lack of scanners at the entrance and gave an assurance that close circuit television (CCT) cameras would be fixed at strategic locations in the prison next month to help expose any form of wrongdoing by the officers and the inmates.

Inmates are subjected to regular beatings by correction officers, according to a class action lawsuit.

Earlier this month, reports surfaced that a number of inmates at Clinton Correctional were beaten by guards immediately following the escape.

The state corrections department named a new superintendent for the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon — Robert Cunningham — and vowed to review «safety concerns» after the April death of a prisoner who inmates said was handcuffed and badly beaten by a group of corrections officers.

The Aug. 4 report, released by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, said that the civil rights of teenaged inmates were violated by correction officers» routine beatings for minor infractions, as part of «a deep - seated culture of violence» that permeated Rikers and also affected adult inmates.

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.»

The letter comes days after a Rikers Island captain was beaten by three inmates in an unprovoked Thanksgiving Day attack that was caught on video.

The suit, authored by Brooklyn attorney Leo Glickman on behalf of inmate Mattieu Burks, claims that Burks was beaten, threatened and called racist names.

That inmate, Patrick Alexander, later had a plastic bag placed over his head and was beaten by officers, who threatened to waterboard him, the suit claims.

A Rikers Island guard admitted to covering up and lying about the brutal beating of an inmate, who died after being repeatedly punched and kicked in the head by another officer.

Three New York State corrections officers were arrested by FBI agents this morning on conspiracy and fraud charges in connection with the beating of an inmate who sustained numerous broken bones and a collapsed lung, and had his dreadlocks ripped out.

Two inmates were strapped to gurneys, taken to a clinic in a mental health unit and beaten so badly by correction officers that blood splattered the walls and witnesses described feeling sick to their stomachs.

A 2014 report by the Correctional Association of New York, an independent non-profit that inspects state prisons and report on conditions, found Clinton Correctional Facility is a place where there is little oversight, guards regularly beat inmates, and racial tension festers between prisoners and correction officers.

The question lingers at Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, a prison with a history of complaints of official brutality, where the Times recently reported on allegations that an inmate was beaten to death in April by what's known at the prison as the «Beat Up Squad,» and witnesses put in solitary confinement and threatened.

«In the spring, the prison guards allowed an attack by Iranian religious thugs who beat up many inmates in Omid's section, Ward 350, where political prisoners were held.»

Josef Fritzl has been beaten up by fellow prison inmates, who also reportedly set up a fake online dating profile for him... reportedly strongly dislike the 80 - year - old rapist from Lower Austria's Amstetten and due to the animosity towards him,...

The BPI program, founded by Max Kenner while an undergraduate at Bard, spawned a debate team comprised of prison inmates from Eastern New York Correctional Facility who made global headlines in 2015 when they beat the Harvard debate team in competition.

The piece gave details about the attack on Community Activities Section supervisor Takeo Tada who had been seriously beaten by five other inmates - a low moment at the camp.

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.

The estate of a prisoner who died after allegedly being beaten by fellow inmates can not sue defendant sheriff and deputies for negligence under the Virginia Tort Claims Act; the Virginia Supreme Court says the sovereign immunity of the commonwealth was...

An inmate who fails to respond to the challenge may be beaten, stabbed or kicked off the range, as determined by senior inmates.