Sentences with phrase «by inmates at»

The items Rowland purchased through the gallery for the exhibition include a steel desk made by inmates at Attica and wooden benches (pictured above) built at Green Haven and used in New York courtrooms.

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

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

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

The NYC Department of Investigation has begun a review of scores of cases of serious injuries suffered by inmates at Rikers Island.

He will be buried beside his wife, Ruth, at the foot of the cross-shaped brick walkway in the Prayer Garden on the northeast side of the Billy Graham Library, in a simple pine casket made by inmates at the correctional facility in Angola, Louisiana.

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

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

The only sneakers allowed into the facility are those purchased on the inmate commissary or those worn into the facility by an inmate at the time of his / her arrest.

Not exact matches

She told the Washington Post that her «daily interactions with the staff and fellow inmates here at Alderson are marked by fair treatment and mutual respect.»

During and after Hurricane Harvey's slow and catastrophic crawl over the Gulf states at the end of August, inmates in multiple prisons in Texas were left to suffer in horrifying, inhumane conditions in ravaged facilities across the state, according to nearly 100 inmate accounts obtained by the National Lawyers Guild.

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.

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that crowding at California prisons constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, and ordered the state to reduce the number of inmates by more than 30,000.

A convicted murderer by the name of Dana Martin recruited his fellow inmate, Mark Aaron Staake, to kidnap and kill Justin Bieber at his Madison Square Garden show.

as a result 27 israelies lost their life at terrorist attacks conducted by some of the inmates they released during the exchange.

Mr. Fitzpatrick says that «we would not react patiently to a German who excused his reluctance to use force in 1942 to free concentration camp inmates if he argued that he was convinced at the time that he could do more good by working within the system to end Nazi control than by risking his own arrest and imprisonment in an armed strike to free a few dozen inmates scheduled for the gas chambers on a single morning.»

I insist that the Church would not condemn guerrilla action taken to free concentration camp inmates facing Nazi gas chambers, or the use of force by a civilian to stop killings such as those that took place at Columbine High School, or in a situation such as my example of a man killing infants in a nursery.

After that six weeks in Sanford, McLain spent short stretches at two other jails before he wound up in what he regards as the very bottom of the belly of the beast, the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, the federal prison that two months after his release would become a site of rioting, destruction and hostage - taking by Cuban - born inmates.

Clinics were offered at the prison by such noted coaches as Arthur Lydiard, who trained Olympic gold medalists Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, and Bill Dellinger of the University of Oregon to help inmates develop their running skills.

At first, the inmates ran in cutoff blue jeans and cheap tennis shoes, but in time running shorts were allowed by the authorities and the owner of a store catering to runners agreed to sell quality shoes at substantially reduced priceAt first, the inmates ran in cutoff blue jeans and cheap tennis shoes, but in time running shorts were allowed by the authorities and the owner of a store catering to runners agreed to sell quality shoes at substantially reduced priceat substantially reduced prices.

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Due in part to a backlash following this summers breakout at Clinton Correctional Facility, the number of state prison inmates tossed in solitary confinement has surpassed 4,000 for the first time in three years, despite vows by officials to limit its use.

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.

Suicide attempts are being misclassified by correction officers as «individual inmate disturbances» at the Erie County Jail.

So far, de Blasio has addressed the ongoing problems with violence and corruption at the city jail with a set of reforms led by Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, including ending solitary confinement for the island's youngest inmates.

That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster population numbers in the primarily rural districts.

Chris Huhne is being ridiculed by wardens and pestered for cash by his fellow inmates at Wandsworth prison, a newspaper has claimed.

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 plan is designed to help curb violence and improve conditions at the troubled Rikers Island detention complex, which is plagued by violence and dangerous conditions for both correction officers and inmates.

This agreement, approved today by the Westchester County Board of Acquisition and Contract, implements a resolution of the Government's findings regarding the Jail's use of force against inmates, its use of isolation as a method of discipline for minors incarcerated at the jail, and its provision of inadequate medical and mental health care to inmates.

They would, in fact, be paid to house inmates being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and it would only apply to people who are being held at the county jail.

The number of inmates held in solitary confinement on New York City's Rikers Island has fallen sharply, in what city officials say is a sign of a gradual turnaround at a jail complex marred by allegations of violence and abuse.

The office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, released its findings in a graphic 79 - page report that described a «deep - seated culture of violence» against youthful inmates at the jail complex, perpetrated by guards who operated with little fear of punishment.

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.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

Nassau saved about $ 30 million annually by outsourcing operation of its bus and sewer systems and inmate health care at the county jail.

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

MANHATTAN — Violence at Rikers Island is on the rise even as the number of people housed at the troubled jail has declined and spending per inmate has increased dramatically, according to a report released Friday by Comptroller Scott Stringer.

A plan announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday would fund college classes for inmates in state prisons, a move that is aimed at reducing recidivism.

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.

Chapman, currently an inmate at Wende Correctional Facility, was interview by the state Board of Parole on Wednesday.

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.

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.

The state correctional officers union is slamming the chair of the Assembly Correction Committee, Manhattan Democrat Danny O'Donnell, for saying at a recent hearing that former Fishskill Correctional Facility inmate Samuel Harrell was murdered by state employees.

The five - year, $ 62 million agreement is expected to reduce the number of inmates in solitary confinement by at least a quarter and usher in a range of reforms, including limiting the time served to three months in most cases and providing the prisoners with certain privileges, like monthly phone calls and group recreation.

At noon, Assemblyman David Weprin, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Correction, will be joined by fellow Elected Officials, members of clergy, and advocacy groups to speak out against the Executive Budget proposal to reduce visitation days for inmates at New York State's maximum - security prisonAt noon, Assemblyman David Weprin, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Correction, will be joined by fellow Elected Officials, members of clergy, and advocacy groups to speak out against the Executive Budget proposal to reduce visitation days for inmates at New York State's maximum - security prisonat New York State's maximum - security prisons.

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.

On a rainy afternoon at the Rikers Island Jail Complex in New York City this week, five men and one woman wearing tan uniforms sat in front of chess boards surrounded by an audience of correction officers and fellow inmates.

Speaking at a ceremony in Kurmawa Central Prison Kano, at which 500 inmates were either pardoned or set free upon the payment of fines by the State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, President -LSB-...]

Also in attendance at the event was correction officer Raymond Calderon, who was brutally attacked last week by two teenage inmates.