Sentences with phrase «jail complex holds»
The 10 - jail complex holds offenders who face charges ranging from trespassing to murder.
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The number of inmates held in solitary confinement on New York City's Rikers Island has fallen sharply, in what city officials say is a sign of a gradual turnaround at a jail complex marred by allegations of violence and abuse.
Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.
A town - hall style meeting was held Monday night about the future of Rikers Island after some high - profile calls to shut down the city jail complex.
Over the last several years, a grass - roots campaign by criminal justice reform activists, former inmates and local politicians have held protests demanding that the jail complex be shut down.
Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference this afternoon on Rikers Island, the City's main jail complex, announcing the recent end of punitive segregation for 16 and 17 year old inmates.
If someone you know has been arrested and is held in jail for a bail hearing then the matter is slightly more complex than just «signing him out».