Sentences with phrase «island prison»

Nelson Mandela was released from a Robben Island prison in 1990, after being inside for twenty - seven years.

Even before the week began, Mr. de Blasio sought to dampen a potential outcry over his plan to eventually close the Rikers Island prison complex by assuring Staten Islanders that he would not build a new jail there, as recommended by an independent City Council commission.

The column said that the justice department's Aug. 4 report condemned violent abuses at the Rikers Island prison complex during three years of Schriro's 2009 - to - 2013 tenure the city's corrections commissioner.

Films, sound works, photographs and installations highlight «botanical nationalism» and other legacies of colonialism, plant migration, bio-piracy, flower diplomacy under apartheid, the role of classification and naming of plants as well as the garden planted by Mandela and his fellow inmates in Robben Island prison.

Fresh - air ferry ride Speed across the bay through the wind and salt spray as the ferry takes you from Pier 33 to one of the most infamous island prisons of all time.

A former Staten Island prison will have to wait a little longer before becoming a movie studio, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli determined.

A new PBS NewsHour segment on Goldman Sachs / Rockefeller Foundation investment into social impact bonds and it's potential to reduce recidivism at Rikkers Island prison.

Also notice the mention of «Albatross  Island Prison».

In the 1930s set film, the English gent, 38, forms a curious bond with counterfeiter Louis, played by Rami Malek, when he's sent to the notorious Devil's Island prison colony in French Guiana after being framed for murder.

When Rook is to be moved by ship to a secure island prison, she accompanies him on the journey.

Alternatively, board a local cruise at the San Francisco Harbour area and head out to the notorious island prison at Alcatraz, once the residence of some of America's most iconic criminals including Al Capone and the fabled «Bird - Man».

Perfect for island prisons or hilltop towers

MGSV: GZ takes place immediately after the events of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, and shows the boss embark on a mission to rescue two valuable members of his army from MGS: PW, Paz and Chico from an isolated island prison that could extract from them vital information that could impact heavily on «The Boss».

A Christian charity has learned that 33 Eritrean women are being held in an infamous island prison in... More

Gov. Andrew Cuomo took a veiled shot at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday, touting the plan to remove youthful offenders from Rikers Island prison by 2018, comparing it favorably to the decade - long plan to close Rikers Island.

A former Staten Island prison will have to wait a little longer before becoming a movie studio, State...

Both Sanchez and Abreu support the closure of the Rikers Island prison complex, an issue that has come up in districts across New York City and particularly in the Bronx.

After serving 27 years, 18 of which were in the infamous Robben Island prison, Mandela was released when the ban on the ANC Party was lifted, becoming the country's first black president four years later.

Alcatraz The former island prison, once home to Al Capone and infamous «Birdman» Robert Stroud, regularly sells out its tour spots, so be sure to book well in advance.

And still the Leninist dream lives on: in a hellhole like North Korea; in the island prison, Cuba; in what ought to be one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, Venezuela.

There is added funding to triple the number of intensive care mental health units at the Rikers Island prison complex and enhance health services at city jails.

Oscar ® winner Mercedes McCambridge (JOHNNY GUITAR) and Herbert Lom (THE DEAD ZONE) co-star as the sadistic wardens of an island prison where abused yet luscious young lovelies surrender to their own depraved desires.

The race this time takes place on an island prison in the near future.

She's paired with the great Herbert Lom as twin tormentors of their burlap - clad charges on an island prison called the «Castle of Death,» which shares the island — to the misfortune of the naughty ladies — with an all - male mirror - prison on the other side.

Imprisoned for a time, some reportedly were flogged for daring to escape their island prison.

Encompassing the entire area north and south of the Golden Gate Bridge, it includes the Presidio of San Francisco, a fort perched at the opening of San Francisco Bay for 218 years, Alcatraz, the island prison made famous in the movies, and Muir Woods National Monument, commemorating the father of the environmental movement in the US.

Highlights include the Presidio of San Francisco, a fort perched at the opening of San Francisco Bay for 218 years, Alcatraz, the island prison made famous in the movies, and Muir Woods National Monument, commemorating the father of the environmental movement in the US.

Though the developers don't plan to go the open - world route, the chance exists that the Joker will escape his island prison in the next game — the teaser trailer debuted at this year's Spike Video Game Awards basically promises as much, revealing a still recovering Joker admiring the willful destruction of private property from an abandoned building within the besieged city.

She is a sorceress that escapes the island prison with Velvet and Rokurou, but doesn't join them into later in the game.

While Lara Croft's first expedition uncovers an island prison run by years of stranded inmates, she also discovers a landscape that abandons the idea of singular globetrotting digs offering a sterile glimpse into frozen pockets of time, instead uncovering a complex web, where the strings of history intertwine around a mystery beating a rhythm of madness heard across the entire island.

These hugely original photographs intimately record MacIndoe's downward trajectory from professional photographer with a flourishing career to struggling opiate addict, a journey of anguish and isolation that was to culminate in an arrest for drug possession and a four - month stint in New York's notorious Riker's Island prison and five months in an American immigration detention centre before he got clean.