Sentences with phrase «jail official said»

The 19 - year - old is not allowed to interact with other inmates for his own safety, jail official said.

MILTON — After spending just 17 days in Saratoga County Jail, former Congressman John Sweeney will be released today at 7:15 a.m., a jail official said.

How it works for jailers Many jail officials say it's just one more twist to a familiar legal process.

The obstructionists, in Stewart's view, included county prosecutors, the trial judge, the assistant public defender who represented him at his first trial (which ended in a mistrial), the private defense lawyer who represented him between the two trials, jail officials he says unfairly denied him access to the law library and the state Attorney Grievance Commission.

Not exact matches

Browder said that to protect the vast amounts of money, some of which he said was in American banks, Putin launched a campaign to repeal the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that imposed sanctions on Russian officials whom the U.S. held responsible for the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail after being retained by Browder to investigate corruption.

The brother of the Parkland, Florida, school shooter is suing several Broward County officials, saying they violated his Eighth Amendment rights and tortured him during a recent stay in jail.

The two men who oversaw prosecution of the pay - to - play pension fund scandal that resulted in former comptroller Alan Hevesi's jail sentence today both said the penalty should serve as a warning against other public officials seeking favors and gifts while in office.

The head of internal affairs for NYC's jails, Gregory Kuczinski, was put on modified duty amid accusations he directed staffers to spy on other city investigators — who were probing him and his boss, officials said.

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.

«I would think it would be a plus to have someone who understands New York state government and its public officials,» said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia professor and author of «Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.»

After faulting Erie County jail officials for labeling inmate suicide attempts as «disturbances,» a state agency says it accepts the method Sheriff Timothy Howard's team will employ to ensure serious incidents are reported to Albany and reported accurately.

Prisoners at London's biggest jail have been living in vermin - infested conditions and 40 per cent fear abuse from staff, official inspectors said today.

ESD officials said the higher appraisals were done when the site was still under consideration to remain a jail.

County Attorney Carnell Foskey said in a statement Tuesday that officials will look to retain such a supervisor until the county selects a vendor for a new jail medical contract following its request for bids in March.

Mangano's administration also said Tuesday in reaction to Schneiderman's lawsuit that county officials have «been working with the attorney general's office to review Armor health care operations» at the jail.

Administration officials also said the type of monitor they're looking to hire at the jail would typically be a doctor, and they'd reached out to Schneiderman's office and professionals in the corrections health services field seeking personnel recommendations.

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.

Correction officials frequently note the poor condition of the jails, which they say put staff and inmates at risk, while inmate advocates argue the jail is hard to access for families who want to visit, is far from courts where inmates must make appearances, and is out of the public eye.

Armor also had said Tuesday it would work with county officials to guarantee a «seamless transition» to a new jail health care provider «as long as all parties adhere to the contractual terms of the current contract.»

«It's an eyebrow - raiser when one of the appointees is connected to a former jailed elected official,» said Richard Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union.

County officials say that policy is squeezing an overcrowded county jail even more.

Mayor de Blasio will have his work cut out for him in replacing Rikers Island with new jails in every borough, officials said Saturday.

There is a disused jail behind the Queens County courthouse that is too old to be revived, officials said.

Elected officials in Queens said on Monday they would support a new jail near the courthouse in that borough.

In between his weekend stints in jail, county and school officials say Vandevender continues coaching basketball and teaching journalism to high school students at Trinity Christian during the week.

Brad Johnson, executive director of the advocacy group Climate Hawks Vote, says Harvey and Irma are reason to finally jail officials who «reject science.»

Officials said it would be up to the courts to decide on how harsh a sentence an offender might face — and refused to comment on the chances of shoppers going to jail.

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«The case does show that the government is taking action against individuals and a company's worst fears that their senior officials could go to jail over this kind of thing may come true,» says James Klotz, chairman of the anti-corruption and international governance group at Miller Thomson LLP and the past chairman and president of Transparency International Canada.