Sentences with phrase «by inmates»

Claims made by inmates who suffered harm in the prisoner system over the last five years have cost the taxpayer over # 10 million.

Begun in 2004, the Rebound program sends selected shelter dogs for training by inmates at the Sanger B. Powers Correctional Center in Oneida.

«Peter Weiss's The Persecution and Assassination of Jean - Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Charenton, Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade», 2010

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

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.

These dogs are trained by inmates at the Albemarle Correctional Institution in an 8 - week obedience training class.

Items include the actual implements used by inmates during the 1962 break out made famous in the movie Escape from Afcatraz; authentic inmate handcuffs and shackles; and correctional of ficer badges and blackjacks.

Peter Weiss's The Persecution and Assassination of Jean - Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Charenton, Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade 2010 Marquee, poster reproduction for the 1967 Czechoslovakian staging of Marat / Sade, polarizing film, sign stand dimensions variable

After an officer was badly slashed by inmates on Rikers Island last week, the union representing most Department of Correction employees is seeking a temporary restraining order in an effort to put a stop to a new use of force investigation policy at one of the island's jails.

The de Blasio administration announced Wednesday that DOC is launching a $ 4.5 million safety and security initiative aimed at addressing violence by inmates against correction officers.

The exhibition features artworks made by inmates from seven regional prisons: HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes; HMP Bullingdon near Bicester; HMP Hewell in Redditch; HMP Grendon near Bicester; HMP Aylesbury; HMP Huntercombe; HMP Long Lartin in Evesham and HMP Sudbury near Uttoxeter.

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Ewert v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 BCSC 962, Mr. Justice Blok certified as a class action certain aspects of a lawsuit brought by an inmate for, amongst other things, damages for violations of Charter rights.

The Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, opened the bureau in September 2016 to handle crimes by inmates, fulfilling a campaign promise and addressing a longstanding demand by the union representing correction officers.

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.

Between 2003 and 2008, there were 66 suicides committed by inmates in Canadian federal custody.

2) You're surrounded by inmates who's own levels of testosterone are elevated simply because that's what happens when you get a shit load of nutcases together in one place.

During discovery, Crawford learned that Garrity had reported a confession by an inmate called Juan Huizar.

According to him, «Illegal access to mobile phones and other communication gadgets by prisoners has been of great concern to the management of the Prisons Service as various criminal activities have been perpetrated by inmates including facilitating jailbreaks and escapes.

There have been several attacks (at least 12 this year our sources tell us) of correction officers by inmates but for some reason the press hasn't covered many if any of these incidents.

One was a man who died of dehydration; another was a newborn baby delivered by an inmate.

One institution in Northeast Florida experienced some minor flooding, but the area was not occupied by any inmates or staff at the time, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

I obtained access to a September 5 letter (the hurricane made its second landfall near Beaumont on August 30), written by an inmate in the Special Housing Unit of USP Beaumont to his mother.

Made of pine plywood, the coffin was crafted by inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary whom Graham met on a visit in 2005.

His coffin was made of pine by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Of late, Conrad has been holding lectures in American history which have been attended by both inmates and guards alike.

Life inside the loony bin seems to be mostly defined by the inmates constantly regarding you as being the only one among them deserving to wear the dunce - cap.

The running program, unlike any other program in the penitentiary, is administered by inmates.

The MoJ started rolling out restrictions on smoking with the aim of protecting non-smokers from the effects of passive smoking, not only on health grounds but also to reduce the likelihood of legal action being brought against the prison service by inmates and employees alike.

Yarl's Wood has been at the centre of several controversies in recent years, including hunger strikes by inmates.

«Fewer officers were seriously hurt by inmates last year than in every year from 2012 through 2015,» said Deputy Correction Commissioner Peter Thorne.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to add about $ 54 million to the Correction Department budget was praised by inmates» advocates and longtime department critics who said it demonstrated a commitment to rein in the brutality and corruption that have long plagued Rikers Island.

Friday's lawsuit, by the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association union, cited an incident that left correction officer Tiffani Dublin with «severe spinal chord injuries» after getting punched multiple times by an inmate.

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

«Smoking is to be banned in all prisons in England and Wales in a move that runs the risk of rioting by inmates, The Times has learnt.

A federal court has broadened the definition of prison sexual abuse stemming from a lawsuit filed by inmates at Eastern Correctional Facility.

But the reports which do come in mention unreported protests by inmates after being locked up all day, small - scale riots and a fundamental breakdown of trust between inmates and guards.

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

In 1977, New York's highest court effectively struck down the death penalty for the murder of a police officer or a correctional officer, and a 1984 ruling struck down capital punishment for murders committed by inmates serving life sentences, effectively abolishing New York's death penalty.

The last of more than 1,200 hand - raised pheasants were released into the wild Friday by inmates at the Erie County Correctional Facility.

Eighteen months after Georgia Department of Corrections employees brutally suppressed a non-violent work stoppage led by inmates in as many as eleven of the state's 34 prisons, it is believed that the «Hidden - 37 ″ have been in solitary confinement ever since.

Four deputies with the Erie County's Sheriff's Office were injured in two separate attacks by inmates in the downtown Buffalo Holding Center.

And its closure would provide a firm break from the history of brutal violence on Rikers Island by inmates and, particularly, by correction officers that resulted in a 2015 federal court settlement.

Kaepernick, however, has been hailed by inmate advocates who cite his outspoken calls for criminal justice reforms.

At Rikers, he endured solitary confinement and beatings by inmates and guards, and made several unsuccessful suicide attempts, according to The New Yorker, which showcased his plight.

RIKERS ISLAND — Eight Department of Correction officers were injured — including one who was bitten on the arm by an inmate — in two fights at the Rikers Island jail Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

Though the dosages vary by state, they do not vary by inmate — each is given the same amount of the drug whether short or tall, fat or thin.

In a nod to 1978's Superman, the movie begins as infant alien Megamind (Ferrell) is sent to Earth, but ends up landing in the confines of a prison where he is raised by the inmates and taught to hate good and practice evil.

Some of the broader elements do make this feel more like a generic slammer movie than the exercise in hard realism promised by the opening: the corrupt authorities conspiring against vulnerable prisoner and would - be redemptive outsider alike; the establishment that's really run by the inmates; the soft - spoken guru - like prisoner kingpin (Peter Ferdinando).