Sentences with phrase «city jails for»

Advocates are urging the City Council to pass a bill that would let inmates make phone calls from city jails for free.

When I was 17, I got into some really big trouble and was remanded in a city jail for a while until I could be transferred to a prison.

Section 506 further states that «every person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of an offense and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period of not exceeding ninety (90) days or by a fine of not more than $ 750.00.»

Carl told Adam that he was in the city jail for an altercation at a bar.

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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.

The judge in Chicago on Friday barred the Justice Department from withholding public safety grants to cities unless they allowed U.S. immigration authorities unlimited access to local jails and provided 48 hours» notice before releasing individuals sought for deportation.

James Harris Jackson, 28, spoke with a reporter for the Daily News at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex.

The author founded an anti-corruption campaign that resulted in putting «a couple of municipal politicians and a developer in jail,» and she was subsequently elected to council for the City of York.

A rally has been held in Jakarta on Wednesday to support the city's Christian governor who was jailed for two years on Tuesday for blasphemy.

The Bishop of Leicester has said sorry for the «pain and anguish» suffered by victims of a choirmaster who was jailed for sexually abusing choirboys in the city.

Fortunately for Ruth and the Yankees, a day in the city's jail ended at 4 o'clock rather than at midnight, allowing the one - day prisoners the benefit of the discrepancy between the solar and the penitential day.

Tevez was arrested for allegedly driving while disqualified on Thursday, an offence that carries a maximum six - month jail term, but he scored three times and made two goals at the Etihad Stadium as City joined Wigan in the last four.

Then in 2008 he was jailed for assaulting a 16 - year - old in Liverpool city centre, which he then topped up by stubbing out a cigar on the eye of a City youth team player in Thailcity centre, which he then topped up by stubbing out a cigar on the eye of a City youth team player in ThailCity youth team player in Thailand.

New York City will soon change the way mentally ill inmates are disciplined after breaking rules while in jail, creating alternatives to the more traditional approach of solitary confinement used for most inmates.

Martin Luther King advocated Ghandi's non-violent protest, but in 1963 he was jailed for leading mass demonstrations against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, which led to the city being dubbed «Bombingham» as attacks against civil rights protesters increased.

The head of internal affairs for NYC's jails, Gregory Kuczinski, was put on modified duty amid accusations he directed staffers to spy on other city investigators — who were probing him and his boss, officials said.

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Ponte also told the NYC Council he didn't know city rules banned him from using his government car for jaunts out of state, wasn't alarmed about an underling potentially eavesdropping on investigators — and admitted he hasn't even read a key report on closing Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex he oversees.

For months, protesters hounded Mayor Bill de Blasio at town hall - style meetings and fund - raisers from Manhattan to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., demanding that he shut down New York City's main jail complex on Rikers Island.

The embattled Rochester City Court judge is pursuing a motion to overturn the court decision that put her in jail for several weeks last summer.

Banksy returned to New York City this past week, painting a mural on Houston St. honoring a jailed Turkish artist, and adding a scurrying rat to the clock of an old bank building slated for demolition on W. 14th St.. The artwork on the famed...

So far, de Blasio has addressed the ongoing problems with violence and corruption at the city jail with a set of reforms led by Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, including ending solitary confinement for the island's youngest inmates.

Over the weekend, Governor Cuomo suggested Wards Island as a possible replacement for Rikers, saying the city should consider building at least three new jails.

Monroe County deputies confirm that Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio will be released from jail early Thursday morning, after being there for more than a month.

At 6:30 p.m., ProPublica partners with New America New York City for Too Big to Jail: Executive Impunity from Wall Street to the White House, a discussion on corporate crime and the government's prosecutorial strategy for top corporate executives, Interface, 140 W. 30th St., Manhattan.

Mark - Viverito's call for Ponte to quit came after an investigation last month by the city's anti-graft watchdog agency found that he had been out of town for a quarter of 2016 as violence and corruption plagued the Rikers Island jail complex.

«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.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTCity Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTcity, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTcity to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTcity employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

In order for Rikers to fully close, the city needs to reduce its jail population to 5,000, according to the mayor's office.

City officials are authorizing new safety measures and equipment use at the Rikers Island jail, including taser guns for corrections officers, multiple sources confirmed to POLITICO New York.

Malliotakis also touched on familiar criticisms of Mayor de Blasio, saying that he «ties the hands of law enforcement» and ignores the will of City residents in areas such as his plan to build 90 shelters for the homeless and his newly adopted goal of replacing Rikers Island with jails throughout the City.

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.

A Rochester City Court judge continues to draw a $ 174,000 - a-year paycheck despite being stripped of her judicial duties after driving drunk to work, being jailed for skipping a court date and taking an extended trip to a monastery in the mountains of Thailand.

He said that city leaders «don't want to see people going to jail simply because they can't afford a small amount of bail for a minor offense,» but said that «there's more than one way to address that issue» and that he is «particularly focused on... some of the efforts to have a supervised release effort for very low - level crimes that we've seen done effectively before.»

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.»

Former city jails chief Joseph Ponte's fondness for road trips ran deeper than the city has previously admitted, records obtained by The Post show.

Mayor de Blasio's plan for closing Rikers Island says little about where new jails should be built — a decision he shrugged off on the City Council Thursday.

A city councilman and a candidate for state Senate said they could close the jail within three years.

A Nevada Senate candidate disinvited City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito from her fundraiser after learning the speaker supported clemency for the jailed leader of a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group, it was reported Wednesday.

In her State of the City speech last week, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced plans for a commission to study ways to shrink the population at Rikers Island — with the end goal of making the «dream» of closing down the city's jail compound a realCity speech last week, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced plans for a commission to study ways to shrink the population at Rikers Island — with the end goal of making the «dream» of closing down the city's jail compound a realcity's jail compound a reality.

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But the budget does include several other priorities sought by the city: It grants design - build authority for the rehabilitation of the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and the potential reconstruction of the Rikers Island jail.

«For most people, it's an abstraction, literally isolated from the rest of the city,» de Blasio said about the jail.

He recalled former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara «s lawsuit against the city for the abusive conditions at the jail, the city's subsequent acceptance of a federal monitor and the plight of youths like Kalief Browder who found themselves unable to afford bail and held behind bars for months, even years, awaiting trial.

Other significant allocations included $ 28.4 million for rental assistance to move homeless families out of shelters, and $ 35.3 million to reduce violence in the city's jails.

De Blasio's plan for closing Rikers Island says little about where new jails should be built — a decision he shrugged off on the City Council.

The NYC Council passed a series of criminal justice reforms to sharply curtail the punishments for low - level offenses such as littering and peeing in public, an overhaul intended to help unclog the courts and jails of the nation's largest city.

Also at noon, NYC Council Members Daniel Dromm and Andy King, the Jails Action Coalition and other groups hold rally to push for changes in treatment of people detained and incarcerated on Riker's Island, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

New York City officials agreed to a plan that would eliminate the use of solitary confinement for all inmates 21 and younger, a move that would place the long - troubled Rikers Island complex at the forefront of national jail reform efforts.

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick visited a Rikers Island jail for a surprise visit with inmates, drawing immediate rebuke from the union representing New York City correction officers, which promptly yanked its sponsorship of a Christmas tree lighting celebration.