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A commission that studied closing the jail facilities at Rikers — one impaneled by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and led by Lippman — endorsed the 10 - year interval.

Not exact matches

Harriott is being held at the Mecklenburg County Jail and will remain the facility until a hearing next week, the Dallas Morning News reported.

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.

A former lieutenant at Brooklyn's federal jail was convicted of sexually assaulting five female inmates, bringing a close to a yearlong prosecution that involved two other guards at the jail and exposed a pattern of abuse at the facility, the Metropolitan Detention Center.

Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D - Freeport) called Armor's tenure at the jail a «dark period» in the facility's history, but also said Tuesday legislators would have to vet the proposed NUMC contract carefully and there should be a public hearing «since it looks like it could be a 100 percent increase in spending» over the previous jail contract.

The problems the commission found at the other four jails include inmate escapes, obsolete facilities, guard posts left unstaffed, and overcrowding.

At 2 p.m., NYC Council members, inmate advocates and former guards and inmates from the city's Rikers Island Correctional Facility discuss proposals for overhauling treatment of inmates at the jail; Urban Justice Center, 16th floor, 123 William St., ManhattaAt 2 p.m., NYC Council members, inmate advocates and former guards and inmates from the city's Rikers Island Correctional Facility discuss proposals for overhauling treatment of inmates at the jail; Urban Justice Center, 16th floor, 123 William St., Manhattaat the jail; Urban Justice Center, 16th floor, 123 William St., Manhattan.

When factoring in debt service costs that would be required at the current jail and Sheriff's Office facilities for necessary maintenance, the total annual cost savings for taxpayers equate to $ 5.4 million annually for the new facility.

Bharara spelled out his office's findings in a scathing 79 - page report addressed to Mayor deBlasio and two other top city officials, which seeks immediate reform at Rikers — particularly its three juvenile jail facilities.

In 2012, there were 517 reported staff use - of - force incidents at Rikers» two biggest jail facilities that host the most teen inmates, resulting in 1,059 injuries.

A Nassau County jail inmate died yesterday, marking the sixth inmate custody fatality this year at a time when the East Meadow facility's private medical provider has come under intense scrutiny after allegations of negligent care.

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.

From the beginning of his time in office, he has openly expressed his concern for the men and women that work at the Dutchess County Jail and has made building a new modern and safe facility one of his top priorities,» said President Timothy DeGelormo.

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.

Another inmate at the Nassau County jail died Monday, which makes a total of six deaths in the facility this year.

«It will also look at utilizing more community courts and borough - based jail facilities.»

All are expected to soon be signed into law by Mayor Bill de Blasio, with the package part of ongoing reforms aimed at changing the culture at Rikers Island and other jail facilities run by the city.

The study is in keeping with DNAinfo New York's reporting from last year, which detailed the plans to close Rikers Island's jail facilities and enumerated a plan to replace it with smaller jails across the city, which the mayor rejected as «untrue» at the time.

At that time, Correctional Medical Care had contracts worth more than $ 32 million a year with 13 county jails in New York, including Albany and Schenectady counties» facilities

Onondaga County started a program this week at the Onondaga County Justice Center and the Jamesville Corrections Facility aimed at helping opioid addicts stay clean after they are released from jail.

The settlement, papers for which were filed July 1, include installing cameras, reducing use of force against inmates, and an agreement to stop jailing offenders under the age of 18 at the facility.

The March 9 presentation, which is available to view below, shows that the City Hall study was initially examining a few options, including just renovating existing facilities at Rikers or a partial closure of the island's jail coupled with the expansion of borough - based detention centers.

The deal keeps the 26 - year - old actress out of jail but requires a 90 - day stint at what the press is calling a «locked - down rehabilitation facility.»

James provides trauma - informed, mindfulness - based teacher trainings, in both the US and internationally, for those interested in bringing teaching the psycho - physiological benefits of yoga and meditation, karma yoga, into prisons, jails, rehabilitation and reentry facilities, serving the incarcerated and other at - risk and underserved communities.

The reality show features seven innocent volunteers posing as prisoners at an Indiana jail known for corruption for 60 days in hopes of discovering the problems in the facility and showing viewers what life as an inmate is like firsthand.

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.

As we have regularly been blogging about, the use of solitary confinement in correctional facilities in Ontario has been in the news since the story of Adam Capay's plight at the Thunder Bay District Jail came to the public's attention earlier this year.

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.

Interviewed witnesses and victims at crimes scenes, hospitals, county jails and other vital facilities in order to obtain information and leads which could possibility help solve the crime.

Chaplains are religious professionals who work at various organizations such as hospitals, military, air force or jail facilities in order to offer pastoral care to a definite group of individuals.

Job Overview Chaplains are religious professionals who work at various organizations such as hospitals, military, air force or jail facilities in order to offer pastoral care to a definite group of individuals.