Sentences with phrase «for younger inmates»

He has expressed concern about the use of pepper spray in classrooms for young inmates at Rikers Island.

It is not clear what solitary will be replaced with, but DOC pledged to come up with a specific code of discipline for its young inmates by the end of the year that will be better suited to their developmental needs, the memo, first reported by the New York Times, said.

This program provides hope and life - long lessons for the young inmates.

Not exact matches

On Sept. 4, to the cheers of fellow inmates wishing him well, Dennis Dale McLain, 43, walked out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Ala., where he had just finished serving almost as many months in prison (29 1/2) as games he had won pitching (31) for the Detroit Tigers in 1968 — the year he was the dominant player in baseball, the American League's Most Valuable Player and winner of its Cy Young Award.

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.

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.

In addition, the DOC is looking to create new young adult housing for 18 - to 21 - year - olds to «reduce idleness, minimize incidents, and generate better long - term inmate outcomes.»

B - The Paperboy Rated R for strong sexual content, violence and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Precious director Lee Daniels chose for his follow - up this over-the-top adaptation of the Peter Dexter novel about a young man (Zac Efron) whose brother (Matthew McConaughey) has come back to his home town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate (John Cusack) with the help of the accused's fiancé (Nicole Kidman).

László Nemes) Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, this powerful and gripping Holocaust drama follows a concentration - camp inmate who goes to desperate lengths to secure a traditional Jewish burial for a young boy.

The camera backs slowly away from Barbara Jean, then reverse - cuts, disclosing the small assembly in the chapel: Barnett, waiting for it all to be over; an earnest young girl nodding and moving her lips in accompaniment to that voice; a group of mostly aged friends and relatives of other hospital inmates; and two men, Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn) and Pfc. Kelly (Scott Glenn), keeping what will turn out to be deathwatches over the crucial women in their respective lives.

A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell while being pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge.

At the same time, officials in Italy could not only track how much time an inmate spends interacting with an ebook using the same technology that parents and educators use for young readers, but they can also verify the user's annotations, highlights, or comments before assigning credit for having read the book.

Cronin is able to make characters who only appear on 10 pages as alive as his main characters, and in the novel's first 100 pages he has set the stage for what promises to be an epic saga: a young girl is abandoned; a scientific team on an expedition in South America discovers a mysterious, deadly virus; a death row inmate is released and transported to a secret location by a military operative for experimentation.

At one time, it was basically a black prison — 98 percent of the inmates were black — and there were children as young as 12 sent there for petty crimes.

Most states still use their own facilities to care for elderly inmates, but the National Institute of Corrections estimates that, on average, states spend about $ 70,000 per year to incarcerate prisoners aged 50 or older, about three times what it costs to house a younger prisoner.