Sentences with phrase «by inmates who»

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

Three hours have been set aside in the morning for Norway's most infamous inmate, who has previously decried his prison conditions as «torture» though they are considered more than comfortable by many.

Noel's findings led to a revamping of the trustee system, and the knowledge provided by one of the inmates even led to the arrest of a woman who tried to sneak drugs into the jail shortly after filming ended.

A story about Randall Jordan - Aparo, an inmate who died after he was blasted with chemicals by prison guards while begging for medical attention, was published in the Miami Herald last week.

Besides, much eyewitness evidence is highly unreliable, as demonstrated by the hundreds of death row inmates who, in recent decades, they're convicted by eyewitness testimony and later exonerated by DNA analysis.

We permit marriage by the elderly, by prison inmates, and by persons who have no intention of having children.

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.

A former Communist and Socialist who became an unvarnished anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer, Rassinier did not initially deny the existence of death camps and gas chambers, but he claimed that the number of Jewish victims was hugely exaggerated, and that most of these were in fact murdered by other Jewish inmates who had been given authority within the camps.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

By the end of Nov. 2016, there is slated to be a Juvenile Separation Unit to allow inmates who received disciplinary confinement sanctions of 30 days or less to be house in the Hudson Correctional Facility, the governor's office said.

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 suit was originally filed by the Legal Aid Society, and was eventually joined by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who wrote in a scathing report that there was a «culture of violence» against inmates in the city jails.

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.

City taxpayers will shell out $ 3.8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of an inmate who died when Rikers Island correction officers failed to get help after...

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.

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.

Anecdotal reports suggest coercive sex may be rife in prison, with victims who do lodge complaints being mostly ignored by prison staff and attacked by other prisoners for reporting on fellow inmates.

De Blasio wants to guarantee short - term employment paid for by the city for every inmate who serves a sentence in a jail — a program that will cost $ 10 million.

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.»]

Weeks earlier, an investigation by The New York Times documented the cases of 129 inmates who had been seriously injured in altercations with guards last year.

One by one, he eliminated the inmates — except for Camilo Arcelay, 37 years old, who used his king to take Mr. Ashley's last pawn.

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

ALBANY — Rob Astorino, the Republican Westchester County executive who is marching toward a run for governor, criticized the incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo for standing idly by as a gun manufacturer expanded into Alabama, and for offering college credit for state prison inmates.

While the inmates were appreciative of Cardinal Dolan's Christmas Mass, he says he is the one who is rewarded by the visit.

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.

Black Westchester has been informed by a reliable source that inmate Michael Howard, who was already charged with attacking and braking Correction Officer Dwayne Boland's jaw has now injured three more officers.

Councilman Corey Johnson of Manhattan, who introduced the bill, said in a statement that he was «deeply disturbed by recent reporting regarding the poor and inadequate treatment of inmates.»

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

Under the terms of the agreement, a monitor who has been chosen jointly by the county and the DOJ will perform periodic reviews over the next three years of the Correction Department's policies and procedures, which will include site visits and meetings with staff, care providers and inmates.

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.

«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.»

Early Solutions Given the difficulty of successfully pleading not guilty by reason of insanity — as well as the inherent problems in mixing disordered inmates, whose disorders tend to make them vulnerable, with nondisordered inmates, who are often predators — early attempts at solving this problem have been workarounds.

Given the mental state of these former inmates — people who were not found insane during their trials — patients found not guilty by reason of insanity might seem to be especially disordered, and so they can be.

I heard an amazing presentation at a HumaneSociety US event a few weeks ago by an Arizona Department of Corrections official who implemented a WFPB diet for all of the inmates of the Maricopa County prison system.

Of course, many inmates who have made mistakes in the past feel tortured by guilt.

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 Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was an attempt to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners Prison guard Faron Selvage, 21, is alleged to have enjoyed a lesbian fling with inmate Sydnee Offord, 29, who claims she was «groped and kissed» by the

There's something crucially cathartic in a movie where Channing Tatum and Adam Driver play simple brothers fucked over by The Man who decide to rip off a NASCAR race, where Daniel Craig slums it as a charmingly ghoulish explosives expert and Dwight Yoakam's corrupt warden can't articulate the intricacies of the «Game of Thrones» publishing schedule to rioting inmates.

She spends time with criminals who are making 10 times a drug's street value by selling to prisoners behind bars, including a «networker», a key link in the chain who sources goods on the outside and gets them to whichever inmate has made an order via the mule.

A comedy about a group of inmates who stage a musical to cover up their escape, it was treated with eager expectation by fans of the Cattaneo's previous work.

Halle Berry is something else as Leticia Musgrove, the widow of an inmate who's just been executed by Hank and his crew, and that something else is commandingly passionate.

The story of a group of women imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II, who form a choir, using music recalled by a fellow inmate, as a way of coping with the trauma of their situation.

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.