Sentences with phrase «in city jails»

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials asked the city Correction Department to detain 944 inmates in city jails between October 2014 and September 2015.

At 9:30 a.m., VOCAL - NY, the Corrections Accountability Project, JustLeadershipUSA and advocates urge lawmakers to end the practice of exploiting people incarcerated in city jails to generate revenue for the city budget, City Hall gates, Broadway side, Manhattan.

The bulk of the report focuses on changes to be made over the next 10 years, including criminal justice reforms aimed at lowering the number of people in city jails.

When I was 17, I got into some really big trouble and was remanded in a city jail for a while until I could be transferred to a prison.

763 - A, in relation to requiring the department of correction to report on security indicators in City jails and repeal section 9 - 130 of such code, in relation to jail data reporting on adolescents.»

At 9 a.m., before a 10 a.m. joint hearing where members of the NYC Council's Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services and Committee on Health will receive testimony about health care in city jails, New York City Jails Action Coalition supporters and people who received medical treatment while in jail or prison will hold a news conference to criticize Brentwood, Tennessee, subcontractor Corizon Health Inc. and the city Department of Correction, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Inmates aren't the only ones in city jails with arrest records: A new report found that 28 percent of the corrections officers hired in 2016 who were later reviewed by...

Last August, the New York City Council approved the bill, which requires corrections officials to publish regular reports posted on the Department of Corrections website about who is in solitary confinement in city jails and at Rikers Island.

By comparison, there were more than 20,000 in city jails in the early 1990s, the report notes.

An additional $ 2.7 million was added to expand pre-arraignment screenings in Manhattan, and $ 2.5 million to expand Hepatitis - C treatment in city jails.

At 10 a.m., the Committees on Public Safety and Fire and Criminal Justice Services will hold a joint oversight hearing on prosecuting violence in city jails, and discussion of a proposed law on requiring certain types of bail recommendations.

But the culture of criminal justice would also have to shift — among lawyers, judges and district attorneys — to ensure that fewer New Yorkers languish in city jails awaiting trial, experts said.

Finances were always tight, but they «continued on preaching and working wherever opportunity came, making opportunities when there was none in city jails and on streets under brush arbors too.»

The suit was originally filed by the Legal Aid Society, and was eventually joined by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who wrote in a scathing report that there was a «culture of violence» against inmates in the city jails.

Other proposed bills would require the city to provide free diapers at certain social services buildings; allow inmates in city jails to choose the gender of their doctor; report more details about unlicensed child care centers and maternal mortality; and assess the accessibility of doulas to pregnant people around the city.