Sentences with phrase «in the corrections department»

Correctional Officer Resume Objective 1: As a correctional officer, I am seeking for a position in the corrections department where I can establish good will and create a harmonious work environment.

Create Resume OBJECTIVE To obtain a position as sergeant in the corrections department of a large detention center.

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Although officials from corrections departments in all three areas say things went smoothly, accounts from inmates and their families suggest otherwise, with reports of flooding, at least one mass escape, food and water shortages, unhygienic conditions, and a lack of reliable communication.

It is largely up to each state corrections department or, in some places, individual facilities whether and how to prepare for natural disasters.

«DOI's investigations exposing and preventing the types of corruption that fuel violence have resulted in more than 30 arrests of Correction Department officers and staff over the last two years and led to dozens of reforms,» he said.

There Will Be No Stay, a documentary film released last year, profiles two former majors in South Carolina's department of corrections Swat team who sued the state for allegedly pressuring them into assisting in multiple executions with minimal training and no counselling (the case was eventually dismissed by a judge).

As commissioner of the department of corrections in Georgia, Ault gave the order for five executions by electric chair in 1994 and 1995.

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.

Despite repeated promises by the New York City Correction Department to tighten security at Rikers Island, an investigator posing as a guard last month was able to smuggle in heroin, pills, marijuana, vodka and a razor blade, a city inquiry found.

COIB's announcement of the fines, and Stringer's scrutiny of Department of Correction spending, comes the same day that a jury is reportedly deadlocked in the corruption trial of former correction union president Norman Seabrook, who is accused of making a deal with a hedge fund to pocket $ 60,000 in exchange for agreeing to steer union money into the fund, which has since been revealed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in receCorrection spending, comes the same day that a jury is reportedly deadlocked in the corruption trial of former correction union president Norman Seabrook, who is accused of making a deal with a hedge fund to pocket $ 60,000 in exchange for agreeing to steer union money into the fund, which has since been revealed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in rececorrection union president Norman Seabrook, who is accused of making a deal with a hedge fund to pocket $ 60,000 in exchange for agreeing to steer union money into the fund, which has since been revealed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in recent memory.

The measure would provide greater transparency around the use of solitary confinement and prevent the Department of Correction from placing prisoners under 18 in the most punitive level of solitary confinement.

Having served 25 years in two stints with New York City's Department of Correction, the last three years as deputy commissioner of operations before his resignation in January, Toulon at least has paper credentials.

«Any disregard of City rules and regulations was an inadvertent misunderstanding and will not recur,» Department of Correction spokesman Peter Thorne said in a statement to POLITICO.

The city will use three existing Department of Correction (DOC) facilities in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, as well as a new site located at 320 Concord Avenue in the Bronx.

The mayor will also announce that the jail will be setting up new TSA - style scanners at Rikers» entry points to increase searches of both officers and visitors who might smuggle weapons or other contraband into the jail that can not be detected by the scanners in use by the Department of Correction today.

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.

The reversal came hours after the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association president Norman Seabrook released a statement slamming a plan to use the Kew Gardens complex as an additional facility to train the next class of recruits — which happens to be the largest trainee class in the history of the department with more than 600 members.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to add about $ 54 million to the Correction Department budget was praised by inmates» advocates and longtime department critics who said it demonstrated a commitment to rein in the brutality and corruption that have long plagued RikeDepartment budget was praised by inmates» advocates and longtime department critics who said it demonstrated a commitment to rein in the brutality and corruption that have long plagued Rikedepartment critics who said it demonstrated a commitment to rein in the brutality and corruption that have long plagued Rikers Island.

The mayor sought to make clear that the problems at Rikers were «decades in the making» and compared today's problem - plagued Correction Department to the New York Police Department in the early 1990s, when the murder rate reached historic highs.

Inmate numbers at Rikers have been falling, and the Department of Correction said about 7,600 people are held there daily, down from about 11,800 in fiscal year 2006

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 Department of Investigation assisted with the matter, and DOI Commissioner Mark Peters said in a statement that Friday's sentencing represented «a measure of justice for the brutal acts perpetrated by former correction employees, including high - ranking officials.»

The state corrections department says Wednesday that 30 - year veteran Michael Kirkpatrick is now superintendent of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.

2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of righDepartment of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of righdepartment's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»

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.

Department of Correction Deputy Commissioner James Walsh in a classroom at the George Motchan Detention Center on Rikers Island.

Walsh is charged with stealing than $ 80,000 from the Sheriff's department while working as a corrections lieutenant for putting in for time he did not work.

THE BRONX — A Department of Correction bus carrying 23 passengers headed to a correctional facility in Ulster County was struck by a car on a jammed highway Wednesday, officials said.

The comptroller argued the claims were part of a disturbing upward trend — the 2,846 claims filed against the Department of Correction in fiscal 2015 is 73 percent higher than the number of claims filed in fiscal 2013, 1,643.

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

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

Introspective lessons like this one are one way the Department of Correction is trying to stem the tide of surging violence in the city's jails on Rikers Island, as part of a 14 - point plan unveiled by Commissioner Joseph Ponte earlier this year.

This suit seeks to remedy the violations that occurred at Pan American and ensure that the New York City Department of Education protects its employees» civil rights in the future,» Bharara said in announcing the lawsuit, which came a day after his office charged the city's Correction Union President Norman Seabrook with fraud and corruption.

«In the past so many inmates ended their time at Rikers more broken then when they came in,» the mayor said during an hourlong press conference with Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph PontIn the past so many inmates ended their time at Rikers more broken then when they came in,» the mayor said during an hourlong press conference with Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Pontin,» the mayor said during an hourlong press conference with Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte.

«Is there a particular problem with the state Department of Correction and how they supervise their facilities, and how they treat people who are in their custody and care and control, and whether or not it is time that there was a very hard look at how that department of correction operates its facilitiDepartment of Correction and how they supervise their facilities, and how they treat people who are in their custody and care and control, and whether or not it is time that there was a very hard look at how that department of correction operates its facilitiCorrection and how they supervise their facilities, and how they treat people who are in their custody and care and control, and whether or not it is time that there was a very hard look at how that department of correction operates its facilitidepartment of correction operates its faciliticorrection operates its facilities?»

Ulster County Sheriff Paul VanBlarcum, accompanied by deputies and corrections officers and the family of a department member who died in the line of duty last year were among thousands of law enforcement professionals who descended on Washington D.C. for Police Week.

A dome was originally scheduled to be installed in the park back in October 2011, but the project was destroyed by Department of Correction officers after it floated over to Rikers Island.

ALBANY, NY (12/10/2015)(readMedia)-- Members of the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF), who are parole officers at the state Department of Correction and Community Supervision, will wrap donated gifts for families of deserving parolees at PEF headquarters in Latham on Saturday, December 12 between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

«Mike worked on a whole host of legislative initiatives, many of them to do with corrections because he had and still has in his district a huge presence of correction officers and corrections department employees and that was something he did right from day one as he walked into office,» he said.

The state corrections department named a new superintendent for the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon — Robert Cunningham — and vowed to review «safety concerns» after the April death of a prisoner who inmates said was handcuffed and badly beaten by a group of corrections officers.

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.

Correction: It appears that the State's Corrections Department will be involved in cobbling together the former addresses of prisoners from Corrections Dept. records and THAT data will be used in the redistricting process.

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.

The department in bowing down to special interest groups like the Board of Correction and have created an environment where Correction Officers are afraid for their safety.

«Beyond the horrific offenses perpetrated by Lieutenant Mitchell, I am concerned that these incidents point to broader systemic failures to identify patterns of misconduct and address them in a timely fashion,» Rivera wrote in a letter Friday to Commission of Correction Chairman Thomas A. Beilein and Anthony J. Annucci, acting commissioner of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

«The leadership has clearly heard the concerned parents and educators who support high standards but know that a moratorium on the use of standardized tests in high - stakes decisions is essential until the State Education Department makes major corrections to its failed implementation plan,» president Richard Iannuzzi said in the statement.

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.

RIKERS ISLAND — A former high - ranking Department of Correction employee and nine current DOC staffers are expected to be charged Wednesday in the alleged beating of an inmate on Rikers Island, according to the Bronx District Attorney's Office.

Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.

Those include a lead paint scandal at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the city's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trips.