Sentences with phrase «corrections officer»

Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco wouldn't speak on camera, but says Farina served as a corrections officer for about 12 years.

The prison, which had 234 inmates, helped the economy, said Assemblyman Billy Jones, a Democrat, who is a former corrections officer and a past mayor of Chateaugay.

The U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit against Niagara County over a job assignment for a pregnant corrections officer was the main factor in driving the county's outside legal expenses for labor - related cases to a new record high in 2015.

A judge in Ulster County acquitted a New York State corrections officer of charges that he kicked an inmate so hard in the groin that part of his testicle had to be removed.

A former corrections officer turned North Country assemblyman, Democrat Billy Jones, says he knows how to make prisons in New York safer.

A 27 - year - old corrections officer at Midstate Correctional Facility in Marcy, was charged with first - degree attempted promoting prison contraband, a felony, after allegedly trying to sneak drugs into the prison.

Attica Correctional Facility has been on lockdown since Sunday following a series of fights among prison inmates, according to a statement released yesterday by the state corrections officer union.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered state authorities to assist with an investigation into an incident in which a state corrections officer was injured after opening a suspicious package at his Oneida County home.

A corrections officer who worked at Rikers Island has been sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of ordering inmates to beat up two teenage prisoners in 2007.

This race is a second - time matchup between Nassau corrections officer and community activist Carl Gerrato...

Opposing Greene on the Republican, Conservative and Independence Party lines is Kevin Hines, a retired corrections officer who is currently a service technician for Kingston Fire Equipment and assistant chief of the Bloomington Fire Company.

This race is a second - time matchup between Nassau corrections officer and community activist Carl Gerrato and Vincent Muscarella, an original county legislator who's been serving since 1996.

Assemblyman Billy Jones (D - Chateaugay), a former corrections officer, also disagrees with the decision.

Mr. Walsh, 48, of East Islip, has worked as a corrections officer at the county jail in Riverside since 1990, although he was suspended without pay following his arraignment in January.

Suspended corrections officer Gene Palmer was arraigned in Clinton County Court Wednesday on charges related to his role in the escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat from the Clinton Correctional Facility last June.

Reform Party candidate Juan Pagán, a community activist and former state corrections officer, came in third place with 97 votes.

It was known in town circles that Quigley took issue with the town Republican committee over filling the vacancy for town clerk after Jason Cosenza resigned earlier this year to take a position as a corrections officer with the sheriff's department.

The corrections officer charged with aiding fugitives Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from the Clinton Correctional facility did not appear at a very short court session Thursday afternoon.

Prior to that he worked as a corrections officer for the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office.

[This meeting has been cancelled in light of a serious attack on a corrections officer.]

He served two stints with the New York City Department of Correction, the first 22 years as a corrections officer, retiring as captain, and the last three years as deputy commissioner of operations before resigning in January.

A Lakeview corrections officer has been arrested by New York State Police on rape and misconduct charges.

The New York Inspector General spent much of Monday meeting with the only corrections officer charged in the aftermath of the escape from the Clinton Correctional facility in June.

An Auburn inmate wanted to frame a corrections officer after a homemade weapon was found in the inmate's pocket, the district attorney's office said.

A reader forwarded a rather stunning story in today's Smithtown News, a Long Island weekly, that alleges the powerful boss of Suffolk County's Conservative party, Ed Walsh, lied about his criminal record when he applied for his current job as a corrections officer.

The 150 - page report, released by state Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott on the one - year anniversary of the escape, goes into the detailed plannings of Matt and Sweat, including their efforts to recruit prison employees like seamstress Joyce Mitchell and corrections officer Gene Palmer.

That same fall, police shot and killed a retired veteran and former corrections officer named Kenneth Chamberlain in his home in White Plains, New York.

«Those fools running the streets, they leave us alone,» said Jason Little, a JRW coach and a former corrections officer.

I am a veteran, former police officer, and corrections officer.

When a corrections officer informs you, «you're on the draft,» you have about 30 minutes to pack up everything you've accumulated (letters, books, family photos) while in prison.

Curran, a former corrections officer and firearms instructor, started Bullet Blocker after the Virginia Tech shooting.

one of the corrections officers will bark.

The contract has sparked a debate among corrections officers, their union, and activists, who are at odds over whether the special - operations training is the right approach to solving Rikers» long - standing brutality problem.

But modernizing corrections officers» equipment to such an extent can be a double - edged sword, according to Kevin Minor, a professor at Eastern Kentucky University's School of Justice.

They warned, several on the basis of personal experience, that participating in executions can exact a «severe toll on corrections officers» wellbeing» and that by doing so many so quickly Arkansas was «needlessly exacerbating the strain and stress placed on these officers».

The New York City Department of Investigation disclosed last fall that their supervisors urged pregnant women correction officers in New York City — mostly minority women — to obtain abortions («Women Given Cruelest Choice Now Fight Back,» New York Times, Oct. 21, 1989) The lower levels of the criminal justice system receive little funding, and New York City prisons are crowded.

«They are snippet observations from corrections officers and are not clinical impressions made by his treating psychologist or psychiatrist at the jail.

«I appreciate (them) helping a sister officer because that could have been their mother, wife or sister,» said correction officers union president Norman Seabrook...

At the same time, the report determined «basic security functions» were not being followed at the North Country prison, including a failure by corrections officers at the front gate to search employees» bag entering the prison, nightly counts of inmates not being conducted at the times, searches of cells that were deemed inadequate and the poor supervisor of inmates by employees and security stagff.

Oneida County corrections officers and elected officials protested the shut down of their local facility earlier this week and called for Cuomo to explain why he had singled it out.

There would, however, be a separate bill in which Cuomo seeks an agreement to allow some police officers, firefighters and members of the New York City Employees» Retirement System, which includes corrections officers, to qualify for enhanced accidental disability pension benefits, according to an anonymous administration official who spoke to the New York Times.

The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has launched an internal investigation into the behavior of dozens of correction officers whose loud partying drew police to an Albany hotel multiple times earlier this week.

Our county boards of election are strapped right now,» Flanagan told reporters after speaking at a rally in Albany for the corrections officers union.

The state Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association slammed Cuomo's plan to make it easier to fire state corrections officers, criticizing its announcement less than two days after the savage beating of a New York City correction officer.

In New York's prisons and jails, simple menstruation supplies like pads and tampons can become bargaining chips, used to maintain control by correction officers, or traded among incarcerated women, according to former inmates and advocates on the issue.

Suicide attempts are being misclassified by correction officers as «individual inmate disturbances» at the Erie County Jail.

New York City has agreed to pay about $ 1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two women who claimed they had been repeatedly raped and sexually abused by the same correction officer at Rikers Island, a Law Department spokesman said.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio today will visit a facility on Rikers Island and meet with correction officers and staff — an event that is closed to members of the press.

The union that represents state correction officers is putting $ 15,000 toward the reward for the capture of two Georgia inmates who allegedly killed two guards and escaped from a prison bus in that state.

The union representing New York correction officers says new security methods are needed to reduce the amount of contraband smuggled into state prisons, while prison officials say more prohibited items are being seized than ever before.