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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.
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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.
James Harris Jackson, 28, spoke with a reporter for the Daily News at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex.
Mike Huckabee closed his keynote on the «curse» of «judicial supremacy» with an extended quotation from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham City Jail.
In the book Why I Am Not a Feminist, author Jessa Crispin argues that safety is «a surface - level cleanliness» in that safety looks like a city bragging about how and clean it is while jails are filled with marginalized people who have been criminalized by punitive laws.
She has worked with incarcerated individuals, families, adolescents, and college students in a variety of settings, including county and city jails, community mental health centers, university counseling centers, and hospitals.
One alternative is to have multiple jail facilities throughout the city at different points, with sites in Brooklyn and Queens, on Staten Island as well as Hunt's Point under discussion.
The jail complex on Rikers Island has failed to comply with minimum safety standards and has become so dangerous, according to the state Commission on Correction, that it can no longer be permitted to accept inmate transfers from outside New York City.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an agreement with the City Council to open or expand jails in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx as part of a plan to phase out the troubled island - based jail in the East River.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson have announced an agreement to replace Rikers Island with a series of community - based jail facilities located near borough courthouses.
The legislation would bolster what the council did in 2014, when it passed rules booting immigration agents from its outpost on Rikers Island, New York City's main jail complex, and restricted the city's cooperation with the federal governmCity's main jail complex, and restricted the city's cooperation with the federal governmcity's cooperation with the federal government.
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.
«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
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.
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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 macity jail guards, and the political fundraising activities of several people with ties to New York City's maCity's mayor.
De Blasio, however, has called it a «noble idea» but has focused his comments on the likely high cost and the logistical hurdles that would come with establishing smaller jails around the city.
He has read the Lippman Report, which concludes that the City jails on Rikers Island should be closed and replaced with jails throughout the five boroughs, and disagrees with its conclusions although he shares much of its analysis of Rikers» problems.
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.
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.
Massey said that he's read the Lippman Report and talked with experts, leading him to support «ending the facility that we now call Rikers» but building new facilities on Rikers Island rather than replacing the current Rikers jails with jails spread around the City.
RIKERS ISLAND — Rikers Island, with its 10 jails and 85,000 annual inmates, occupies an odd spot in the city — actually, a few odd spots.
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 compCity 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 compcity's progress in reining in brutality by guards and improving conditions at the jail complex.
«It's time that New York City step up to the plate with a real plan to close this jail on a rapidly accelerated timeline,» David said.
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.
Miami - Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez ordered jails to comply with federal requests to detain immigrants, citing Trump's executive order earlier this week cracking down on «sanctuary cities.»
«She'll fight to ensure that New York City keeps Rikers Island open and will stand arm to arm with New Yorkers to block any efforts to locate city jails in our neighborhoods.&raCity keeps Rikers Island open and will stand arm to arm with New Yorkers to block any efforts to locate city jails in our neighborhoods.&racity jails in our neighborhoods.»
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.
According to data provided by City Hall, Ponte conducts weekly focus groups with wardens and captains in order to hear feedback from those working in the jails and conducts department - wide surveys about his new policies to gauge the officers» rate of approval.
On their many criticisms of Mayor de Blasio, they often converge — they have both called out the mayor's record on crime with similar rhetoric; they've both criticized the mayor's handling of the city's schools and homelessness; they both believe that jails should remain on Rikers Island, though reformed and modernized.
The mayor set a goal of reducing Rikers» inmate population to 5,000 under his 10 - year plan, with a proposal to replace it with smaller jails across the city.
«Our preference is to determine the specific sites and for there to be ownership with the City Council,» he said, noting that design would be considered as part of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure required for new jails.
The city was socked with a $ 84.5 million tab to settle 11 cases of people jailed for crimes they didn't commit.
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.
Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrated the passage of three City Council bills increasing access to tampons and pads in schools, jails and shelters with a Tuesday signing ceremony and press conference.
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.
Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday announced an agreement with the City Council to open or expand jails in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx as part of a plan to phase out the troubled island - based jail in the East River.
An inmate tied with a U.S. Chess Federation grandmaster at the first official tournament at New York City's Rikers Island Jail Complex, where the game is part of programming designed to educate and reduce idleness.
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.
Mr. Lippman pointed to a recent cover story in Crain's about what the city could do with the property on Rikers Island if it razed the jails there.
The contest pits Moya against Hiram Monserrate, who is trying to make a comeback after he was expelled from the state Senate for slashing his girlfriend's face with glass, and did jail time for stealing city money in a separate fraud case.
Norman Seabrook, president of the New York City Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, called for an automatic seven - year jail term for anyone caught with an illegall firearm.
Mr. de Blasio said he would work with the City Council to determine possible sites for new jails, and then move on to the arduous task of designing them and getting them approved through the city's lengthy land - use procCity Council to determine possible sites for new jails, and then move on to the arduous task of designing them and getting them approved through the city's lengthy land - use proccity's lengthy land - use process.
All are expected to soon be signed into law by Mayor Bill de Blasio, with the package part of ongoing reforms aimed at changing the culture at Rikers Island and other jail facilities run by the city.
«By ending the collusion of local law enforcement and jails with federal immigration authorities, New York City will be a safe place where our immigrants no longer fear deportation by interacting with police.
The 146 - page report, issued Friday by an independent commission convened by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and tasked with studying the issue, calls for the closure of the Rikers over the next 10 years through a mixture of alternative sentencing, bail reform, and the building of five smaller jails, one in each of the five boroughs.
After the Investigation Department released its findings in June 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would let its contract with Corizon expire; a city agency, NYC Health & Hospitals, now provides care in the city's jails.
The study is in keeping with DNAinfo New York's reporting from last year, which detailed the plans to close Rikers Island's jail facilities and enumerated a plan to replace it with smaller jails across the city, which the mayor rejected as «untrue» at the time.
Elizabeth Glazer, director of the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, said, «Today, with the opening of a dedicated Rikers Island prosecution bureau, New York City is taking an important step to continue reducing violence in our city's jaCity is taking an important step to continue reducing violence in our city's jacity's jails.