Sentences with phrase «jail guards of»

The Nexus group accused the agencies of imposing an excessive $ 500,000 bail and jail guards of «intimidating and harassing behavior» that included sleep deprivation tactics.

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.

Of her first 29 months in jail, Hailey served about 27 of them in 23 - hour isolation for breaking jailhouse rules and was frequently involved in confrontations and scuffles with guardOf her first 29 months in jail, Hailey served about 27 of them in 23 - hour isolation for breaking jailhouse rules and was frequently involved in confrontations and scuffles with guardof them in 23 - hour isolation for breaking jailhouse rules and was frequently involved in confrontations and scuffles with guards.

If word gets to jail staff that one of the inmates has a contraband item, it could prompt security guards to carry out a raid of their cells.

Without carpets on the floor, with screams of command from the guards regularly punctuating the atmosphere, and with small three - men cells as the locus of ongoing physical tensions and arguments (homosexual rape is a scandalously regular form of violence), jail offers little opportunity for stillness and peace.

On the second day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s imprisonment in a Birmingham jail, a guard slipped him a copy of the morning paper.

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.

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., Manhattan.

Over the past few weeks, a series of loosely related public corruption investigations coordinated by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara have spilled into public view, with targets including high - ranking New York Police Department officials, the union representing city jail guards, and the political fundraising activities of several people with ties to New York City's mayor.

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.

«We should close down Rikers and build a new state of the art jail that is just safer for the guards and for the inmates,» Mr. Cuomo said on NY1 this morning.

Weeks after a federal report chronicled the assaults of teenage inmates by guards at Rikers Island, Florence Finkle, the commissioner overseeing investigations at the jail, resigned.

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.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo signals he's supportive of closing down Rikers Island in favor of a more modern and smaller jail in New York City, the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association is glad the talk is focusing in part on safety of the guards.

The jail on Rikers Island is widely acknowledged to be a mess, one of the most dangerous places in New York for both inmates and guards.

Former Sen. Al D'Amato was this close to being called as a witness at the corruption trial of the former head of the city's correction officers union — which gets underway this week — over a story he has been telling for years about how the fallen jail guard rep once solicited him for a bribe, The Post has learned.

A drone protester was taken into custody in the town of DeWitt to begin serving a six - month jail sentence for violating an order of protection for a colonel at Hancock Air National Guard Base.

Former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato was close to being called as a witness at this week's corruption trial of Norman Seabrook, the former head of the NYC correction officers union, over a story he has been telling for years about how the fallen jail guard rep once solicited him for a bribe.

A Manhattan federal jury said it is deadlocked in the bribery trial of ex - jail guards union boss Norman Seabrook after four days of deliberations.

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.

David Anthony Fullard, an assistant professor at the State University of New York and former captain on Rikers Island, said the new jails should house no more than 500 inmates, ideally with a ratio of roughly one guard per eight inmates, about half the current ratio at Rikers.

The state commission's report criticized the jail complex over matters such as staffing levels and monitoring of guards.

In this tense, psychological thriller based on the notorious true story, Billy Crudup stars as Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system.

Locked in jail despite his desperate protestations of innocence, Joe is then subject to a terrifying nocturnal assault by the maddened townspeople, who drive away the craven police guards and burn the jail down, killing Joe — they think.

One of the most formidable intelligence services the world has ever seen, the Stasi has one informer for every seven residents of East Germany, plus countless armed guards, special jails, and nightmarish interrogation centers.

What impresses me the most is that while Mary Skelter Nightmares isn't necessarily meant to be a horror game first - and - foremost, it undoubtedly has heavy influence from it and does well to make you feel a level of discomfort, which is dramatically aided by the Nightmares - essentially bosses / guards that roam around each level - that creep around The Jail, occasionally making its presence known in a startling manner.

The Appellant, Riccardo Bellusci, had been charged with assault and intimidation of a justice system participant after an altercation with a prison guard while being transported from court to jail.