Sentences with phrase «jail complex in»

The mayor and other city officials all but conceded that Rikers would never be fixed and signed onto a plan to close the jail complex in the next decade.

The agreement grew out of a DOJ report issued at the end of the Spano administration in November 2009, regarding conditions of confinement existing at the jail complex in 2006 and 2007.

And he proceeded to blast the conditions at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the plan to close the Rikers Island jail complex in 10 years as too long of a timeline — both clear jabs at de Blasio — and said he would like to see an end to cash bail.

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.

In a letter filed in federal court in New York, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office said the deal included appointing a federal monitor to oversee the reforms at Rikers, one of the largest jail complexes in the country.

Not exact matches

De Blasio called the death of a mentally ill veteran in an overheated cell on Rikers Island «shocking and troubling» and vowed to make reforms to the city's sprawling jail complex, where violence has surged in recent years.

Although NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio last March laid out a timeline of up to 10 years for closing the Rikers Island jail, the state Commission of Correction, called the schedule unreasonable, given the rise in «violent incidents and degrading conditions» at the complex.

Hoping to accelerate the closing of the Rikers Island jail complex, NYC officials announced that they have now chosen sites for four new jails, one in each borough except Staten Island.

The legislation would bolster what the council did in 2014, when it passed rules booting immigration agents from its outpost on Rikers Island, New York City's main jail complex, and restricted the city's cooperation with the federal government.

After being asked if he supported closing Rikers Island, Dietl said the city has to «fix what we got,» and added that he and de Blasio should stay in the jail complex.

This announcement came the same week that the de Blasio administration announced one of the jails in the Rikers complex would be closed by the end of 2018.

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The timetable places the burden of actually closing the complex on the mayor's successor, and the plan does not have a schematic for locating the replacement jails bordering the criminal court buildings in each of the five boroughs, as called for in a report former state Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman co-authored earlier this year.

The de Blasio administration has already made strides on that front, announcing in December that the monthly average population at the jail complex had dropped below 9,000 for the first time in 35 years.

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.

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.

A commission headed by former chief judge Jonathan Lippman, which recommended shutting down the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, said there should be smaller jails in each borough, near their courthouses.

Closing Rikers Island The debate moment that got the most attention was Stringer declaring that the Rikers Island jail complex should be closed in three years, far short of the ten - year timeline announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a fellow Democrat also favored to win reelection this year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city can close the notorious Rikers Island complex in less than 10 years, if Albany passes key criminal justice reforms, as he announced an agreement with the City Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail system.

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.

The landmark vote of the evening could be if Cortland County legislators officially designate donated land in South Cortland as the site of any new jail or public safety complex.

And earlier this month, she unveiled a $ 6 million plan to help rehabilitate female inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex; Sisters Thrive, a national volunteer effort to promote mental health literacy in the black community; and NYCHOPE, a web - based portal for domestic violence survivors.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration said Wednesday it will demand quick, efficient fixes to conditions at the Rikers Island jail complex and to four upstate jails that a watchdog commission has deemed the worst local jails in the state.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, in her State of the City speech, offered up criminal justice reforms Thursday that she said could sharply reduce Rikers Island's population and realize the «dream» of closing the violence - marred jail complex.

The number of personal injury claims filed against New York City for episodes at the Rikers Island jail complex and other city correctional facilities surged last year in what the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, called a troubling indication of a continuing plague of violence and mismanagement.

Last month, de Blasio announced plans to close the notorious prison complex in a decade and reduce the city's jail population by about half — down to 5,000 — to make it happen.

He also reiterated plans to upgrade JFK Airport in Queens and criticized Rikers Island jail complex, though he stopped short of calling for its closure.

Rikers Island, in the East River across from La Guardia Airport, serves as the principal jail complex for New York City.

Michael Jacobson is the executive director of the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance and is involved in efforts to close the Rikers Island jail complex.

Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed on Friday to close the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, which has spawned federal investigations, brought waves of protests and became a byword for brutality, in a move he said was intended to end an era of mass incarceration in New York City.

DOI Commissioner Mark G. Peters said, «The Rikers Island Prosecution Bureau is an important step forward in addressing the violence and corruption that takes place at the City's main jail complex.

In 2016, the main New York City jail complex, Rikers Island, ended the use of solitary confinement for 16 - to 18 - year - olds, and Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced an end to punitive solitary confinement for people under age 21.

Her other initiatives are a $ 6 million plan to rehabilitate female inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex; Sisters Thrive, which encourages mental health literacy in the black community; and NYCHOPE, a web - pased portal for domestic violence survivors.

She repeated her desire, first articulated in her speech last year, to close the jail complex on Rikers Island.

Ms. Mark - Viverito, also a Democrat, said in her speech that the Council would create an independent commission, led by the state's former chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, to study the criminal justice system with an eye toward shrinking the jail population so that closing the Rikers complex could be a reality.

But closing Rikers has gained political momentum over the last few days since the Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, endorsed in her State of the City address the idea of mothballing the unloved complex that covers the more than 400 - acre island, and replacing it with an archipelago of neighborhood jails.

It began as a «dream» on Thursday, in a speech by the New York City Council speaker: closing the Rikers Island jail complex.

A CASUAL reader of the news these days might conclude that there is real hope for Rikers Island, New York's cesspool of a jail complex, located swimming distance from La Guardia Airport in the East River.

The city's already low crime rates would have to be driven down further and case processing times reduced significantly in order to close the jail complex, the report says.

Sentenced to three years in jail upon getting into a scuffle with a couple of fuzz trying to stop him from busking in the park, Otis, for starters, would be a far more resonant character if he were portrayed by a black actor (it doesn't count that the icky Matthews suffers from delusions of soul), since there's nothing to justify his martyr complex.

The county jail is located in Versailles, along with a number of businesses, sports complexes and restaurants.

The visualization of their research exposes the vast amount of territory given over to prison complexes, and the disproportionate number of residents from specific urban neighborhoods that make up the majority of inmates locked up in these jails.

It's all more complex than the «time - shifting» debates of early VCR technology, and more complex than music piracy in the late»90s, but I wonder if this massive new 3D printing thing won't just make another Apple / iTunes story out of some big player who can snag the best printing technology, broker the best deal with IP owners, DRM the hell out of it all, and then balance the costs to consumers so keenly that the majority will simply give up trying to steal designs and jail - break their printers and just buy in.

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».

The county jail is located in Versailles, along with a number of businesses, sports complexes and restaurants.