Sentences with phrase «jail complex on»

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

As the drumbeat to shutter the city's main jail complex on Rikers Island continues, many are imagining what could replace the exclusive gated community and the island's 413 acres.

The independent commission studying Rikers Island officially released its recommendations for closing the troubled jail complex on Sunday, more than a year after the panel was convened and two days after Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York reversed course to back the plan.

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.

As the drumbeat to shutter the city's main jail complex on Rikers Island continues, many are imagining what could replace the exclusive gated community...

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.

For months, protesters hounded Mayor Bill de Blasio at town hall - style meetings and fund - raisers from Manhattan to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., demanding that he shut down New York City's main jail complex on Rikers Island.

The jail complex on Rikers Island has failed to comply with minimum safety standards and has become so dangerous, according to the state Commission on Correction, that it can no longer be permitted to accept inmate transfers from outside New York City.

Not exact matches

Six guards at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex were sentenced on Friday to prison for the 2012 beating of an inmate that left him with fractured eye sockets and a broken nose.

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.

Ponte also told the NYC Council he didn't know city rules banned him from using his government car for jaunts out of state, wasn't alarmed about an underling potentially eavesdropping on investigators — and admitted he hasn't even read a key report on closing Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex he oversees.

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.

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.

Mayor Bill de Blasio declared on Thursday that Rikers Island «deeply needs a culture change» and called ending the pervasive violence at the jail complex a top priority of his administration, acknowledging that he had previously underestimated the level of dysfunction there.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who also pushed de Blasio to close Rikers before he announced his plan to do so, said on Wednesday the decrease indicated that it may not take 10 years to shutter the jail complex.

De Blasio's plan to close the jail complex is expected to take 10 years and puts the onus of picking where the smaller jails will be located on the City Council.

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.

Now, a team of a dozen prosecutors and two investigators is stationed on the island inside the New York City jail complex, working out of a gray double - wide trailer.

A federal judge on Wednesday approved landmark reforms at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex that will resolve claims that guards regularly used unnecessary force against inmates.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio declared on that Rikers Island «deeply needs a culture change» and called ending the pervasive violence at the jail complex a top priority of his administration, acknowledging that he had previously underestimated the level of dysfunction there.

And Mr. de Blasio said he would spend $ 170 million to build a new correctional center for adolescents, which would allow the city to remove the roughly 180 adolescents housed on Rikers Island from the troubled jail complex.

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.

The City Council is introducing a package of bills on Tuesday to require the city's Department of Correction to provide detailed reports on inmates» demographic information and the department's use - of - force policy, and to create a crisis intervention plan at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex.

EAST ELMHURST — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday released his plan to close the troubled Rikers Island jail complex within 10 years, cautioning that it isn't a «quick fix.»

Nixon is a staunch ally of de Blasio, who often feuds with the governor on various issues, including the city's struggling subway system and the plan to close the Rikers Island jail complex.

The top investigator at the New York Correction Department resigned on Friday under pressure from city leaders who are facing a federal mandate to regain control of the Rikers Island jail complex, where widespread brutality and corruption by guards routinely go unpunished.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio tussled Thursday over when to close Rikers Island, a day after 29 alleged gang members were indicted on a charge of attacks on inmates and officers at the jail complex.

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.

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