Sentences with phrase «inmates by guards»

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.

Weeks after a federal report chronicled the assaults of teenage inmates by guards at Rikers Island, Florence Finkle, the commissioner overseeing investigations at the jail, resigned.

Not exact matches

A story about Randall Jordan - Aparo, an inmate who died after he was blasted with chemicals by prison guards while begging for medical attention, was published in the Miami Herald last week.

The office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, released its findings in a graphic 79 - page report that described a «deep - seated culture of violence» against youthful inmates at the jail complex, perpetrated by guards who operated with little fear of punishment.

Earlier this month, reports surfaced that a number of inmates at Clinton Correctional were beaten by guards immediately following the escape.

A nationwide study found that assaults on guards by inmates were 49 percent more frequent in private prisons than in government - run prisons.

Gene Palmer, a former Clinton Correctional Facility guard, has admitted he unwittingly helped two inmates escape from the northern New York prison by smuggling in tools.

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.

But the reports which do come in mention unreported protests by inmates after being locked up all day, small - scale riots and a fundamental breakdown of trust between inmates and guards.

Weeks earlier, an investigation by The New York Times documented the cases of 129 inmates who had been seriously injured in altercations with guards last year.

Comparing it to «Lord of the Flies,» Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara on Monday called Rikers Island a «broken institution» run amok with excessive force by guards and a place where the civil rights of teenage inmates are routinely violated.

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.»

Inmates at Rikers Island continue to be subjected to brutal violence by guards, a new report found.

A Rikers Island guard admitted to covering up and lying about the brutal beating of an inmate, who died after being repeatedly punched and kicked in the head by another officer.

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.

Down the hall came Inmate No. 78764 - 053, a fist of a man diminished by the loss of the $ 2,500 suit and the $ 800 shoes he had just been forced to exchange for a jumpsuit, following a guard to his cell.

Criminal justice advocates have called for shutting down Rikers Island because of the conditions there, including the level of violence between inmates, documented abuse of prisoners by the guards and substandard facilities and healthcare that has lead to multiple deaths.

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.

Less than a month later, the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, threatened to sue the city after releasing a report that accused the Correction Department of failing to protect adolescent inmates from excessive force by guards.

«In the spring, the prison guards allowed an attack by Iranian religious thugs who beat up many inmates in Omid's section, Ward 350, where political prisoners were held.»

The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was an attempt to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners Prison guard Faron Selvage, 21, is alleged to have enjoyed a lesbian fling with inmate Sydnee Offord, 29, who claims she was «groped and kissed» by the

After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker reveals to the guards and administrators that he's not a criminal at all, but the new warden, assigned by the governor to infiltrate the facility undercover.

Overrun with new inmates and overseen by inexperienced guards, the prison undergoes an unprecedented culture war.

The Stanford Prison Experiment (R for profanity, sexual references and abusive behavior) Psychological thriller inspired by the 1971 study conducted by Professor Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) in which college students were enlisted to serve as guards and inmates in a mock penitentiary.

That was followed by Sundance entrant «Everything Put Together» in 2000, before he broke through with «Monster's Ball,» a bleak drama about the romance between a death row inmate's widow and a racist prison guard that won Halle Berry an Oscar, and proved commercially popular as a result.

Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974) came next, upping the stakes by constructing its taboo sex scenes as rendezvous between Charlotte Rampling, playing a former concentration - camp inmate, and Dirk Bogarde, her former guard.

Only one tour company operates to the Island and included in your $ 26 entrance fee is your ferry ride to and from and a free audio guide, which was narrated by former inmates and prison guards and was very easy to use.

Prison Architect, developed by Introversion Software, challenges players to build and manage a maximum security prison, from laying out cell blocks and inmate facilities, to managing staff pay and prisoner morale.Prison designs will include basic necessities like cells, canteens, guard rooms, and infrastructure, but...

As the last inmate from your ward to join the unexpected escape, you \'ll have to find your way under a snowstorm and through the barricades.Avoid being seen by the guards, attack them by...

In a sharply registered contrast, very intimate moments are almost choreographed by the regulatory strictures of the visitation, and are enacted by a number of variously connected and detached agents: muralist, guard, photographer, camera, visitor, inmate receiving a visit, inmates not receiving a visit, and the room of spectators.

In Norway, when someone asked a guard at the maximum security Halden Prison what would happen if an inmate climbed a tree on the forested property (surrounded by a security wall), the guard said, «He'll climb back down at some point.»

He became enraged by routine noises — the sound of doors opening as the guards made their hourly checks, the sounds of inmates in nearby cells.

In one recent case out of the Southern District of New York, Amador v. Andrews, an inmate filed a grievance alleging that she was sexually assaulted by a guard.

Suppose that the guards saw (or were taken out by) some imminent danger and are out of the picture, though the inmates don't necessarily know why - they just notice water coming in and rising inside, relatively quickly.

Whenever I visit her in prison, we're surrounded by prison guards, inmates and their families.