Sentences with phrase «brutality by guards»
Federal prosecutors plan to sue New York City over widespread civil rights violations in the handling of adolescent inmates at Rikers Island, making clear their dissatisfaction with the city's progress in reining in brutality by guards and improving conditions at the jail complex.
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God was not caught off guard by police brutality,» my pastor recently preached.
The top investigator at the New York Correction Department resigned on Friday under pressure from city leaders who are facing a federal mandate to regain control of the Rikers Island jail complex, where widespread brutality and corruption by guards routinely go unpunished.
Churchill's instincts are to stand up to the bullies and fight for Britain's existence; he is opposed by an old guard haunted by the brutality of the first World War, embodied by Lord Halifax (Stephen Dillane), who argues for appeasement with the Nazi regime.
On their way from the Midwest to New York City, they pick up a girl hobo played by Dorothy Coonan (Mrs. Wellman), and endure hardship, starvation, police brutality, rape on the train (by guard Ward Bond) and some particularly well - staged riots.
We see brutality, as the Irish prisoners are forced to bathe and run a gauntlet of British guards, in riot gear, as they are beaten by batons that are being banged against plastic shields, but McQueen does a wise thing, and briefly shows a split screen shot of one of the guards, who has snuck away from the gauntlet, and is weeping in a dark private room.
Each piece tells the story of an experience in prison, whether his own or recounted by the men he knew there, detailing everything from guard brutality to gang wars to psychotic breakdowns.