Sentences with phrase «city jail system»

This law barred the city jail system from complying with ICE requests to detain anybody not accused or convicted of a crime, not listed in federal gang or terror databases, or without a standing deportation warrants against them.

The payout to an outside consultant hired to stem the violence at Rikers Island has ballooned from $ 1.7 million to $ 27.4 million in less than three years — even as the city jails system has seen a significant spike in assaults, records show.

Not exact matches

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano on Monday announced the appointments of three veterans of New York City government to new or long - unfilled posts meant to reform the county's contracting system and oversight of its jail.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that Governor Andrew Cuomo should stick to running the state jail system as the city continues to work towards reforming Rikers Island.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today he would finally bow to the urgings of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and countless left - wing activists and formulate a plan to shutter the Rikers Island detention complex over the next 10 years — although the crucial work of creating a new, diffuse jail system will fall upon his successor, regardless of whether the liberal Democrat wins re-election this fall.

«We can now move ahead with creating a borough - based jail system that's smaller, safer and fairer,» de Blasio crowed, announcing that he has secured the support of key City Council members for the scheme.

2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city can close the notorious Rikers Island complex in less than 10 years, if Albany passes key criminal justice reforms, as he announced an agreement with the City Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail syscity can close the notorious Rikers Island complex in less than 10 years, if Albany passes key criminal justice reforms, as he announced an agreement with the City Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail sysCity Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail system.

«The notion of on average once a year a member of this city council going to jail and each and every case from misuse of member item money I think this has reached an unsustainable point and it simply proves that this system is no longer workable,» de Blasio said.

The changes, aimed at reducing violence in the city's troubled jail system, sparked criticism from some prisoner - rights advocates who called the policy changes unfair and counterproductive.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano announced the appointments of three veterans of New York City government to new or long - unfilled posts meant to reform the county's contracting system and oversight of its jail.

As part of the proposal, Mark - Viverito also announced last week an independent commission chaired by former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman would study and come up with proposals to change the city's current criminal justice system from its jails to the court houses.

Kalief's story became one of the most widely - recognized condemnations of the jail system on Rikers Island and the cash bail system in New York City.

The speaker's proposals come as the de Blasio administration continues to grapple with rising rates of violence at the troubled city jail, as well as an overburdened court system.

Nixon is a staunch ally of de Blasio, who often feuds with the governor on various issues, including the city's struggling subway system and the plan to close the Rikers Island jail complex.

After City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito called for an overhaul of the city's criminal justice system in her state of the city speech Feb. 11 and announced the formation of the Lippman commission, Councilman Joe Borelli, who represents Staten Island's South Shore, wrote a letter to the speaker telling her that he doesn't want a jail in his distrCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito called for an overhaul of the city's criminal justice system in her state of the city speech Feb. 11 and announced the formation of the Lippman commission, Councilman Joe Borelli, who represents Staten Island's South Shore, wrote a letter to the speaker telling her that he doesn't want a jail in his distrcity's criminal justice system in her state of the city speech Feb. 11 and announced the formation of the Lippman commission, Councilman Joe Borelli, who represents Staten Island's South Shore, wrote a letter to the speaker telling her that he doesn't want a jail in his distrcity speech Feb. 11 and announced the formation of the Lippman commission, Councilman Joe Borelli, who represents Staten Island's South Shore, wrote a letter to the speaker telling her that he doesn't want a jail in his district.

«For too long, Rikers Island has been emblematic of the deep institutional flaws in our city's jail system.

Rumors have swirled that de Blasio is considering Banks as commissioner of the city's Department of Correction, putting him in charge of the jail system.

Mr. de Blasio said the jails could be closed in 10 years, providing the city could reduce the number of people who cycle through the city's system to 5,000; low enough, that is, for every inmate to be taken off the 400 - acre island and housed instead in jails elsewhere in the city.

The new, borough - based jail system, which the commission argues would cut down on transportation and staffing costs while helping to better integrate the justice system back into the community, would cost $ 11.4 billion to build but could save the city $ 1.4 billion annually, according to the report.

Cuomo called NYCHA and the city's jail system glaring examples of racial and economic inequality.

Cuomo doubled down on his attacks on the city's public housing and jail systems — calling both glaring examples of racial and economic inequality.

EAST HARLEM — City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito laid out an ambitious agenda focused on equality in her first State of the City address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito laid out an ambitious agenda focused on equality in her first State of the City address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weCity address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for wecity - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weeks.

At the end of March, under pressure from left - wing activists and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to shutter the Rikers over the next 10 years and create a new, diffuse jail system.

The allocation of millions of dollars in additional funds for McKinsey comes even as many measures of violence in the city's jails system are moving in the wrong direction.

There are roughly 10,000 inmates in the city's jail system, a vast majority of whom are housed on Rikers Island.