Other investigations concern some high - ranking NYPD officials and the union representing
city jail guards.
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.
Not exact matches
Six
guards at New York
City's Rikers Island
jail complex were sentenced on Friday to prison for the 2012 beating of an inmate that left him with fractured eye sockets and a broken nose.
At 2 p.m., NYC Council members, inmate advocates and former
guards and inmates from the
city's Rikers Island Correctional Facility discuss proposals for overhauling treatment of inmates at the
jail; Urban Justice Center, 16th floor, 123 William St., Manhattan.
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 comp
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 comp
city's progress in reining in brutality by
guards and improving conditions at the
jail complex.
As Gov. Andrew Cuomo signals he's supportive of closing down Rikers Island in favor of a more modern and smaller
jail in New York
City, the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association is glad the talk is focusing in part on safety of the
guards.
Former Sen. Al D'Amato was this close to being called as a witness at the corruption trial of the former head of the
city's correction officers union — which gets underway this week — over a story he has been telling for years about how the fallen
jail guard rep once solicited him for a bribe, The Post has learned.
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.