Sentences with phrase «force against inmates»

In recognition of her work as a member of a team of lawyers who brought an unprecedented civil rights class action against New York City to end the use of excessive force against inmates at Rikers Island and other New York City jails, Ms. Enenajor was honoured with a 2014 Pro Bono Publico Award by the New York Legal Aid Society.

The settlement, papers for which were filed July 1, include installing cameras, reducing use of force against inmates, and an agreement to stop jailing offenders under the age of 18 at the facility.

A federal judge on Wednesday approved landmark reforms at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex that will resolve claims that guards regularly used unnecessary force against inmates.

This agreement, approved today by the Westchester County Board of Acquisition and Contract, implements a resolution of the Government's findings regarding the Jail's use of force against inmates, its use of isolation as a method of discipline for minors incarcerated at the jail, and its provision of inadequate medical and mental health care to inmates.

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My focus was on why lethal violence is not appropriate against abortionists and their staffs, when it would be considered heroic to use force to save, for instance, infants under attack or to free concentration camp inmates.

Forcing inmates to sit in the same underwear for days on end serves to dehumanise them and breeds a siege mentality against authorities.

«While we did not specifically investigate the use of force against the adult inmate population, our investigation suggests that the systemic deficiencies identified in this report may exist in equal measure at the other jails on Rikers,» prosecutors wrote in the report.

On Nov. 18, 2013, a Rikers Island inmate was scheduled to testify in court against two correction officers charged with use of excessive force and a subsequent coverup.

During Mr. Bloomberg's last term in office, use of force by officers against inmates jumped by 90 percent.

Kehoe said independent evaluators reviewed use of force incidents against inmates, to see if force was used only when necessary, used appropriately and reported promptly to the Commission of Correction.

He plays Korg, a doleful inmate in a remote prison who is resigned to a life of pain, yet keeps alive an impossible dream of rebellion against the forces that hold him captive.

There, Crewe is forced into taking a deal to coach a football team of his fellow inmates that will play against the prison's guards and intentionally lose.

Solomon's collusion in this act recalls the «choiceless choice» of Salamo Arouch, Willem Dafoe's Auschwitz prisoner in Triumph of the Spirit, who is forced to box against other inmates for the Nazis» entertainment.