Sentences with phrase «jail facilities on»

«The grant went to the purchase of two vehicles which the staff needs to respond to jail facilities on the Island and to travel to and from Bronx courts, as well as for computer and other office equipment.

De Blasio is suing to block a Cuomo administration order that would force the closure of a jail facility on Rikers Island that houses nearly 400 inmates — including 100 teenagers.

Not exact matches

One alternative is to have multiple jail facilities throughout the city at different points, with sites in Brooklyn and Queens, on Staten Island as well as Hunt's Point under discussion.

Horn said the 6,000 or so inmates left in the system after those reforms could be held in state - of - the - art jails constructed on the footprints of existing corrections facilities in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn.

The agency said it has tried to help jail management fix the issues, but the ongoing problems highlight «the need for closure of all jail facilities located on Rikers Island.»

Assembly committees on health and corrections heard testimony on a number of issues pertaining to health in state prisons and local jails, including the treatment of HIV and hepatitis C, illnesses that have increased in correctional facilities with the rise in use of injectable drugs like heroin.

The Commission of Correction has come down on Howard and his jail team in past years, especially after the U.S. Justice Department in 2009 sued Erie County to force the sheriff to improve conditions in the facilities he oversees.

He spoke of rebuilding the facilities on Rikers Island, declaring that the current operations are a failure, but not endorsing the new de Blasio view of closing the Rikers Island jails and moving those operations to new and expanded jails around the City.

The Jail has 56 beds, but routinely has between 90 and 110 inmates, exceeding its capacity on a regular basis and requiring the boarding of prisoners in surrounding facilities.

Rather than focusing on new facilities to replace Rikers, de Blasio's lengthy report discusses ways to reduce the jail population to 5,000 inmates.

We can not afford to spend money on an over-sized jail facility if there are other more cost - effective programs that can address our correctional needs.

Sen. Brian Benjamin's two - page bill would require the city to close the jail on or before July 1, 2020 and «establish other facilities and / or utilize existing facilities» to house prisoners.

Massey said that he's read the Lippman Report and talked with experts, leading him to support «ending the facility that we now call Rikers» but building new facilities on Rikers Island rather than replacing the current Rikers jails with jails spread around the City.

Councilman Corey Johnson, a Democrat from Manhattan, seized on the commissioner's comments, particularly in light of the department's ongoing plan to expand its jails on Rikers and their need for nearly $ 200 million in capital funds to upgrade the facilities.

The American Civil Liberties Union says the federal government is illegally detaining immigrant teens from Suffolk County, N.Y., in «jail - like facilities,» based on unsubstantiated claims that they are members of transnational street gangs.

On a visit to the troubled Rikers Island jail facilities a few years ago, Councilmember Daniel Dromm was taken aback by an unannounced companion accompanying a group that included council members and the corrections commissioner.

Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted today that the responsibility for siting the new, diffused network of holding facilities intended to replace Rikers Island over the next decade will fall not on him, but on the City Council — and called for bold members of the body to take the political gamble of recommending the city put a jail on their own home turf.

We demand that inmates who have been assaultive and have been re-arrested to be immediately removed from whatever facility on Rikers that they are in and sent to a different jail system where punitive segregation exists.

A hospitalized inmate in the Nassau County jail died on Tuesday night, marking the facility's fifth custody fatality this year.

Selected from more 500 jails, prisons and other correctional facilities nationwide, Westchester's efforts won «Program of the Year» honors from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, a top accreditation group.

Investigators found Moore in the Broome County Correctional Facility — he was in jail on a separate matter.

City officials on Tuesday said they're taking the first step to shuttering Rikers Island by closing a facility that houses 600 men at the jail site this summer.

The new, smaller facilities, would be built on the footprints of existing, outdated jails in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn, and would be built anew on city - owned land in The Bronx and Staten Island, according to the plan.

A new report on «problematic» jails names the Erie County Holding Center and the County Correctional Facility among the «worst» in the state.

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Besides Rikers Island, the city has jails in Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, as well as on a floating barge in the East River, but those facilities total only about 2,400 beds.

The buildings, which contained approximately 74,600 square feet on the first floor and 26,228 square feet on the second floor (total of 100,828 square feet) included the former jail and processing area, administration and police offices, assembly area, gym, food service, auto repair facility, and courtrooms.

Essentially, the Crown alleged that, on November 7, 2012, while he was incarcerated at the Toronto Don Jail, the respondent threatened to kill a correctional officer named Jason Groeneveld, who was employed in that facility.

For example, possessing the knuckles within 300 feet of a school or on the premises of school function increases the offense level to a state jail felony, which carries a punishment of 180 days to 2 years in a state jail facility and a fine not to exceed $ 10,000.

Since most jails are focused on short - term imprisonment, they are small in nature and lack the resources and facilities commonly associated or required for longer detainment.

West Coast LEAF will argue that the mandatory jail sentence at issue in this case has a disproportionate impact on women because of their role as primary caregivers and the potential for loss of child custody, and the likelihood that women will be jailed far from their home communities because of the lack of adequate facilities for incarcerated women in BC, among other issues.

On sentencing the prosecutor sought a significant jail sentence served in a BC Corrections facility.