Sentences with phrase «by jail guards»

As the agency's chief investigator, Florence Finkle, left, targeted abuse by jail guards.

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Buddhist monks & nuns are forced to denounce the Dalai Lama, which they spiritually can't do, & when they refuse, they are jailed & often beaten by Chinese prison guards.

While he was jailed in England — where he had gone after the murders and from which he was extradited — Soering's wrist was broken twice by the same prison guard.

Over the past few weeks, a series of loosely related public corruption investigations coordinated by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara have spilled into public view, with targets including high - ranking New York Police Department officials, the union representing city jail guards, and the political fundraising activities of several people with ties to New York City's mayor.

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.

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.

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.

Ferragamo - loving former labor boss Norman Seabrook — busted by federal authorities this month in a massive kickback scheme — boasted that he was given an American Express black card by the law firm hired to represent his jail - guard union, sources told the NY Post.

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.

A guard who unwittingly helped two killers escape from a northern New York prison by smuggling in pliers, a screwdriver and a hacksaw blade hidden in hamburger meat was sentenced Monday to six months in jail.

Locked in jail despite his desperate protestations of innocence, Joe is then subject to a terrifying nocturnal assault by the maddened townspeople, who drive away the craven police guards and burn the jail down, killing Joe — they think.

This time, Link must use stealth to avoid being seen by the guards, who will throw Link into a jail cell if found.

What impresses me the most is that while Mary Skelter Nightmares isn't necessarily meant to be a horror game first - and - foremost, it undoubtedly has heavy influence from it and does well to make you feel a level of discomfort, which is dramatically aided by the Nightmares - essentially bosses / guards that roam around each level - that creep around The Jail, occasionally making its presence known in a startling manner.

Newfoundland man set free by Supreme Court sentenced to house arrest for threat against jail guard, Canadian Press

I was told by police officers that there were not enough guards to quell the violence or to give prisoners their half - hour out in the Don Jail's quadrangle for some fresh air.