Sentences with phrase «inmates by correction officers»

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At the same time, the report determined «basic security functions» were not being followed at the North Country prison, including a failure by corrections officers at the front gate to search employees» bag entering the prison, nightly counts of inmates not being conducted at the times, searches of cells that were deemed inadequate and the poor supervisor of inmates by employees and security stagff.

In New York's prisons and jails, simple menstruation supplies like pads and tampons can become bargaining chips, used to maintain control by correction officers, or traded among incarcerated women, according to former inmates and advocates on the issue.

Suicide attempts are being misclassified by correction officers as «individual inmate disturbances» at the Erie County Jail.

The de Blasio administration announced Wednesday that DOC is launching a $ 4.5 million safety and security initiative aimed at addressing violence by inmates against correction officers.

«Fewer officers were seriously hurt by inmates last year than in every year from 2012 through 2015,» said Deputy Correction Commissioner Peter Thorne.

The plan is designed to help curb violence and improve conditions at the troubled Rikers Island detention complex, which is plagued by violence and dangerous conditions for both correction officers and inmates.

Rikers has gained notoriety over the past few years for its culture of violence and corruption, including attacks on and by correction officers and a number of inmate deaths.

Despite all the changes, violence by inmates and correction officers has continued to rise under Mr. de Blasio.

The Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, opened the bureau in September 2016 to handle crimes by inmates, fulfilling a campaign promise and addressing a longstanding demand by the union representing correction officers.

Ms. Clark's predecessor, Robert T. Johnson, had been criticized by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Correction Officers Benevolent Union for delays in prosecuting cases against inmates, even as slashings and assaults continued to rise.

City taxpayers will shell out $ 3.8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of an inmate who died when Rikers Island correction officers failed to get help after...

Inmates are subjected to regular beatings by correction officers, according to a class action lawsuit.

Attica Correctional Facility has been on lockdown since Sunday following a series of fights among prison inmates, according to a statement released yesterday by the state corrections officer union.

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.

The Times uncovered details on scores of assaults at Rikers Island through interviews with current and former inmates, correction officers and mental health clinicians at the jail, and by reviewing hundreds of pages of legal, investigative and jail records.

The state correctional officers union is slamming the chair of the Assembly Correction Committee, Manhattan Democrat Danny O'Donnell, for saying at a recent hearing that former Fishskill Correctional Facility inmate Samuel Harrell was murdered by state employees.

While prison officials have not confirmed or denied the family's account, an autopsy performed by the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office ruled inmate Samuel Harrell's April 2015 death a homicide provoked by «physical altercation with corrections officers.»

On a rainy afternoon at the Rikers Island Jail Complex in New York City this week, five men and one woman wearing tan uniforms sat in front of chess boards surrounded by an audience of correction officers and fellow inmates.

Also in attendance at the event was correction officer Raymond Calderon, who was brutally attacked last week by two teenage inmates.

«There may be a few that react with what you might think is excessive force,» said Seabrook, «but in defense of an officer being assaulted by an inmate, a correction officer must use whatever force is necessary to terminate the assault.»

The Aug. 4 report, released by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, said that the civil rights of teenaged inmates were violated by correction officers» routine beatings for minor infractions, as part of «a deep - seated culture of violence» that permeated Rikers and also affected adult inmates.

The Correction Officers Benevolent Association last month filed a federal suit of its own, alleging inmate violence is up 18 percent since de Blasio's decree and street gang members in custody are organizing against guards, who have been «punched, kicked, slashed, splashed with urine, feces or saliva, stabbed, held hostage, beaten severely or sexually assaulted by inmates.»

Pictures of the four correction officers assaulted by inmates in NYC in the last five weeks.

An inmate awaiting trial for allegedly shooting someone in the leg escaped from a Brooklyn detention facility by telling correction officers he was someone else, officials said.

Three New York State corrections officers were arrested by FBI agents this morning on conspiracy and fraud charges in connection with the beating of an inmate who sustained numerous broken bones and a collapsed lung, and had his dreadlocks ripped out.

He held a press conference savaging the mayor and his correction commissioner on the steps of City Hall after a correction officer was badly slashed in the face, and has pushed back hard against many of de Blasio's efforts to bring reforms to Rikers Island to overcome what Bharara deemed, in a separate investigation, a culture of violence by guards against inmates.

In Westchester County alone, Correction Officer operates housing units with up to 60 inmates by him / herself, no weapon, no nightstick, no radio, just a body alarm.

Black Westchester has been informed by a reliable source that inmate Michael Howard, who was already charged with attacking and braking Correction Officer Dwayne Boland's jaw has now injured three more officers.

There have been several attacks (at least 12 this year our sources tell us) of correction officers by inmates but for some reason the press hasn't covered many if any of these incidents.

The city's jails and its Department of Correction have been in a harsh spotlight for the last two years, amid investigations from the press and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that alleged a culture of brutality by correction officers, climbing violence between inmates, and pledges of reform from Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner JosCorrection have been in a harsh spotlight for the last two years, amid investigations from the press and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that alleged a culture of brutality by correction officers, climbing violence between inmates, and pledges of reform from Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner Joscorrection officers, climbing violence between inmates, and pledges of reform from Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner Joseph Ponte.

The bill, which Mr. de Blasio says he supports, would compel the department to publish quarterly reports that include information about the number of inmates in solitary confinement, their length of stay and whether they were injured, sexually or physically assaulted, or subjected to use of force by correction officers.

Two inmates were strapped to gurneys, taken to a clinic in a mental health unit and beaten so badly by correction officers that blood splattered the walls and witnesses described feeling sick to their stomachs.

And its closure would provide a firm break from the history of brutal violence on Rikers Island by inmates and, particularly, by correction officers that resulted in a 2015 federal court settlement.

The investigator, Florence L. Finkle, is leaving less than a month after a damning federal inquiry chronicled assaults on teenage inmates by guards at Rikers, and criticized the division she oversaw as «ineffectual,» «understaffed» and biased in favor of correction officers.

«The mayor has apparently given up on keeping the jails safe for both correction officers and inmates, as evidenced by the 18 percent increase in slashings and stabbings last year,» said COBA President Elias Husamudeen.

A 2014 report by the Correctional Association of New York, an independent non-profit that inspects state prisons and report on conditions, found Clinton Correctional Facility is a place where there is little oversight, guards regularly beat inmates, and racial tension festers between prisoners and correction officers.

Despite all of the attention on Rikers, violence by both inmates and correction officers has continued to rise.

At 1 p.m. Monday at City Hal, the correction officers union will hold a press conference «following the vicious attack on a correction officer by two Rikers inmates.»

RIKERS ISLAND — Eight Department of Correction officers were injured — including one who was bitten on the arm by an inmate — in two fights at the Rikers Island jail Thursday afternoon, authorities said.