Sentences with phrase «by inmates from»

The exhibit shows paintings, drawings, prints, and writings by inmates from San Quentin State Prison, California's oldest correctional institution.

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On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

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.

New York's prison population is decreasing, but the number of inmates age 50 and over rose 46 percent from 2007 to 2016, and the state must adjust its policies to meet the unique needs of this population, according to a report issued today by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

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

Life in prison is to become slightly more uncomfortable for male inmates, in a move dismissed by reformers but welcomed on the doorstep two days away from this year's local elections.

Last week, de Blasio released a «roadmap» for phasing out the incarceration center, which mostly reiterated steps he called for when he announced a plan to shutter Rikers in March: combining sentencing, bail, mental health and rehabilitation reforms to reduce the city's inmate population from 9,300 to 7,000 by 2021 and 5,000 by 2027.

On the heels of an agreement by Albany County and a private medical provider to pay $ 1.1 million to the estate of a former jail inmate who died of a stroke after nurses waited 12 hours to call an ambulance, jail administrators from other counties told members of the state Assembly on Monday that such private contractors usually improve medical services in jails.

Palmer is also charged with two counts of tampering with physical evidence by burning and burying paintings obtained from the inmates.

The program has already diverted 3,700 people from jail, 92 % of whom showed up to court; the expansion could reduce the number of inmate beds necessary by 500 over five years, according to the plan.

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.

The Board of Correction today approved a plan for an enhanced supervision unit touted by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte — but also voted to end solitary confinement for all inmates on Rikers Island under 21 by 2016, a sweeping change that will set the department apart from jail systems nationwide.

The plan is to make the drug — commonly known by the brand name Vivitrol — available to inmates, people enrolled in drug court programs and others, like those who might have been saved from an overdose.

Gene Palmer, a former Clinton Correctional Facility guard, has admitted he unwittingly helped two inmates escape from the northern New York prison by smuggling in tools.

From Liz's link to the NYT: [Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, who sponsored the legislation in the Assembly, said, «The practice of inmate - based gerrymandering fundamentally undermines the principal of one person, one vote, by reallocating political power to a handful of upstate, rural communities.»]

An inmate awaiting trial for allegedly shooting someone in the leg escaped from a Brooklyn detention facility by telling correction officers he was someone else, officials said.

Aside from the what the county administration has done, he pointed to drug diversion efforts by the District Attorney's Office and acknowledged new efforts by the Erie County Sheriff's Office to counsel and connect inmates with treatment while incarcerated and upon their release from jail.

The city's jails and its Department of Correction have been in a harsh spotlight for the last two years, amid investigations from the press and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that alleged a culture of brutality by correction officers, climbing violence between inmates, and pledges of reform from Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner Joseph Ponte.

In a prison - break drawing comparisons to the film The Shawshank Redemption, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat broke out of the facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border, early Saturday morning by cutting through steel walls, shimmying through a steam pipe and emerging from a manhole on the outside.

According to Tompkins County Administrator Joe Mareane, the over-budget spending is driven by overtime costs and the expense of boarding inmates out from the county jail.

The plan would start by reducing the population of the island by about half, from roughly 9,700 inmates to 5,000 inmates, by introducing an array of programs to keep offenders out of jail.

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.

RIKERS ISLAND — The Department of Correction plans to end solitary confinement for adolescent inmates by the end of the year, according to a memo from DOC Commissioner Joseph Ponte to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

In one account, an inmate claimed that after Richard Matt and David Sweat broke out, pressure from top - level officials led to harsh treatment by those working within the prison.

Less than a month later, the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, threatened to sue the city after releasing a report that accused the Correction Department of failing to protect adolescent inmates from excessive force by guards.

Allow another 1,000 state prison inmates a year to take SUNY courses paid for with $ 7.5 million seized from criminals by the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Inmates of a range of ages were recruited from five category B and C prisons, a women's prison and a young offender institution, all in the West Midlands, and were randomly assigned to either a course of ten weekly yoga sessions of 90 minutes run by the Prison Phoenix Trust, or to a control group.

Many European countries had stopped collecting blood from prison inmates by 1983.

Results in the simulation almost exactly tracked California figures for the probability of returning to jail based on the number of times incarcerated, the inmate's age upon first being released from prison, the number of months since release, and by the length of the sentence.

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,...

Four male inmates escaped from Ploetzensee prison in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday morning by smashing through reinforced concrete bars and climbing out a Quiz: How much of a Berliner are you?

Joined by two other asylum inmates in his flight from the institution, Jim embarks on a physical and spiritual quest to regain his life in False River.

Players assume the roles of two very different characters: Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin searching for a defector from the Gemini system, and «Delta - Six,» a hospital inmate whose memory has been wiped by mysterious, Big Brother types.

Most of the new patients — or inmates, really — have been tricked into coming there by their parents, though some have been drugged or forcibly removed from their homes.

It doesn't take long before the fuzziest Brown rescues his fellow inmates from McGinty's bland sawdust slop by reigniting the chef's desire to please (thanks to a collection of prisoner recipes).

In this film, Jessica Madsen plays one of four young inmates from a mental hospital - the other three played by Sam Coleman, Sam Strike, and James Bloor.

Lockout (PG - 13 for profanity, sexual references and intense violence) Futuristic, sci - fi thriller about a wrongly - convicted federal agent (Guy Pearce) who is offered a pardon in return for rescuing the President's daughter (Maggie Grace) from an outer space prison where she's been taken hostage by bloodthirsty inmates.

Naturally intrigued by Kirsty's tales of a puzzle box that appears to be the key to the doctor's fixation, Channard reanimates Kirsty's stepmother (Julia) from the aforementioned haunted mattress, murders off the inmates of his basement inferno to feed his new girlfriend (Julia, again), and gets Tiffany (Imogen Boorman), a mute girl who is adept at puzzles, to open the dreaded antique, thus releasing the Cenobites and allowing entrance into the underworld.

Who: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Joseph Gilgun, Peter Stormare and Lennie James What: A wrongly convicted man is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.

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.

Lock - Out Directed by: James Mather and Stephen St. Leger — Starring: Maggie Grace, Guy Pearce, Peter Stormare, Vincent Regan Summary: A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.

I wept, and sobbed, and sniffled, and wailed through the bittersweet adventures of two immigrants - a bear from Peru in London, and an improvised sushi chef from Syria in Helsinki in Paddington 2 (truly a work of comedic wonder, which also made me cry tears of joy) and The Other Side of Hope; the dredged up pain of Folsom Prison inmates in The Work; the anger of racial injustice and prejudice exposed through James Baldwin's words in I Am Not Your Negro - and the blow of that Kendrick Lamar song that comes with the end credits; the disconnection of fathers and daughters in the corporate capitalist world who discover they can still duet by the piano in Toni Erdmann; the pangs of the teenage heart with the real girls of All this Panic.

In this film, Jessica Madsen plays one of four inmates from a mental hospital - the other three played by Sam Coleman, Sam Strike, and James Bloor.

Directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Martyrs), the prequel centers on four inmates (Jessica Madsen, Sam Coleman, Sam Strike, James Bloor) who escape from a mental hospital, one of which becomes the title character and iconic slasher.

Leatherface, 2017 Directed by Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury Starring Finn Jones, Lili Taylor, Nicole Andrews, Stephen Dorff, James Bloor, Vanessa Grasse, Sam Coleman, Sam Strike SYNOPSIS: A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell while being pursued by an -LSB-...]

The film follows the obese title character (Sam Coleman) through an upbringing supervised by his abusive mother (Lili Taylor) and his eventual escape from a mental hospital with three other inmates, who become his hostages as a deranged sheriff (Stephen Dorff) pursues them to the bloody end.

Amongst the inmates is unique albino silverback gorilla George, an intelligent, friendly, though obviously strong beast who has been hand - reared, almost from birth, by Davis.

Mane and Moran play inmates in an extremely violent and bloody prison riot, along with Danny Trejo (Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn), Derek Mears (Friday the 13th), Sean Whalen (Halloween II, Men in Black), and Vernon Wells (The Road Warrior), directed by B.J. McDonnell (Hatchet III) and produced by Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp, Paranormal Halloween).

SYNOPSIS: A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell while being pursued by -LSB-...]

Directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Inside), the prequel centers on four inmates who escape from a mental hospital, one of which becomes the title character and iconic slasher.