Sentences with phrase «inmates on assault»

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At Ohio's Lake Erie Correctional Institution, which CCA bought in 2011, inmate - on - inmate assaults increased 188 percent and inmate - on - staff assaults went up more than 300 percent between 2010 and 2012, according to a state report.

The last study released by the Department of Justice was in 2001, and it found that the rate of inmate - on - inmate assaults was 38 percent higher at private prisons than at public prisons.

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that four Rikers Island inmates have been indicted on Gang Assault and related crimes for attacking a Correction Officer, causing serious injuries including a fractured spinal column.

RIKERS ISLAND — Five correction officers were convicted of attempted gang assault on Tuesday in the brutal 2012 beating of an inmate at the city jail.

The city has struggled to contain violence at Rikers, but a City Hall spokeswoman said today that uses of force with serious injury dropped 23 percent in 2015, and assaults by inmates on staff with serious injury dropped by 11 percent in 2015.

«The 23 % reduction is serious uses of force and 11 % reduction in serious assaults on staff make clear that Commissioner Ponte is taking aggressive steps to keep our inmates and officers safe,» spokeswoman Monica Klein said.

The same study revealed that assaults on fellow inmates were 65 percent more frequent in private prisons.

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

Ponte said some of the changes in the adolescent facility have already reduced inmate fights, assaults on staff and use of force.

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.

Supervisors who had worked with inmates at a Brooklyn prison on efforts to reduce rape have themselves been charged with sexual assault.

Records show officers stood by, and one even watched, during a prisoner's assault on another inmate in 2014 at the Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie.

The Elmira Correctional Facility was placed on lockdown following the assault of an inmate by two other inmates.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses lowering pensions in Detroit, China tensions choking off tourism to Vietnam, and NYC reviewing assaults on inmates on Riker's island.

A violent Rikers inmate got nearly 10 more years tacked onto his sentence — for pummeling a correction captain last Thanksgiving in a caught - on - camera jailhouse assault that nearly started a...

A city Department of Investigation spokeswoman said more than two dozen correction staff have been arrested on charges of smuggling contraband and assaulting inmates since 2014.

Some residents in the area are said to have attacked the district police headquarters at Kwame Danso, assaulted police personnel on duty and released four inmates.

But what the insider wants the public to really be concerned about is the increase of inmate assaults on officers and the safety of the jail.

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.

While inmate assaults on staff are down 17 % this year, having prosecutors on the Island will improve our ability to deepen this important progress.

Hizzoner also continued to insist that the jails «are safer» since Ponte came on three years ago, despite city statistics showing that the rate of assaults against correction officers and among inmates has increased during his tenure.

On that day, a Rikers inmate, Dapree Peterson, 21, was scheduled to testify against two correction officers who had been accused of assaulting Mr. Peterson and covering it up in an official report.

There were 88 stabbings and slashings by inmates and 752 assaults on uniformed staff members reported in the 2014 fiscal year, compared with 34 and 500, respectively, four years earlier.

The recent analysis released by Senator Klein also revealed an increasingly dangerous environment overall inside New York's prisons as inmate - on - inmate assaults continue to skyrocket as well.

Inmate assaults on staff increased by 8.3 percent between July and November 2016 compared with the same five months in 2015 — and again, were nearly double the comparable period in 2012.

«At a time when assaults on correction officers are rising, while punishments to assaultive inmates are declining, Mayor Bill de Blasio has left New York City for Iowa today to begin his political pursuit of winning the presidency,» said Elias Husamudeen, President of COBA.

The case concerned an inmate - on - inmate assault which had occurred in an Edmonton correctional institution.

Recent examples of our work in discrimination law include suing an immigration detention centre for racial discrimination, challenging the police for stopping and searching people based on race, challenging discriminatory bail conditions applied to people wrongly arrested during the London riots, failing to protect a homosexual prisoner from assault by homophobic inmates and persuading a school to apologise and train relevant staff after it excluded a pupil with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

The number of inmate - on - inmate assaults fell at the Ottawa - Carleton Detention Centre last year, although incidents still occur on average more than once every two days, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.