Sentences with phrase «improve jail conditions»
The «Truth in Sentencing Act» is legislation that was intended to provide an excuse for provincial and federal governments» not making any increased expenditure of money to increase the number of provincial and federal prosecutors, or to improve jail conditions, and an excuse for governments not to have to appoint and pay for more judges to make more courts available.
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The Commission of Correction has come down on Howard and his jail team in past years, especially after the U.S. Justice Department in 2009 sued Erie County to force the sheriff to improve conditions in the facilities he oversees.
Her efforts have played out as the city continues its push to improve conditions at the jail complex, which is being overseen by a federal monitor as part of a legal settlement.
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 complex.
A report from a federal monitor found rising violence at the jail complex despite attempts to improve conditions.