Sentences with phrase «jail system»

The government have to pay a lot of money on the prison and jail system guess who are there?

It is an honor that recognizes the county's jail system for meeting a set of standards, but some are raising questions about several deaths and other incidents behind bars.

During the Bloomberg administration, then - Commissioner Martin Horn had envisioned reestablishing a community - based jail system where inmates were closer to their families, their attorneys and the courts.

Howard was forced to explain 22 deaths in the county jail system under his watch.

The Board of Correction today approved a plan for an enhanced supervision unit touted by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte — but also voted to end solitary confinement for all inmates on Rikers Island under 21 by 2016, a sweeping change that will set the department apart from jail systems nationwide.

In August the study focused on a more aggressive analysis of the cost and time frame for moving the city jail system off Rikers, according to the presentation.

Joseph Ponte, the correction commissioner brought to New York City to overhaul its troubled jail system, has been reprimanded in a Department of Investigation report that found he had spent 90 days outside the city last year, even as violence at Rikers Island was spiraling out of control.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that Governor Andrew Cuomo should stick to running the state jail system as the city continues to work towards reforming Rikers Island.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said Cuomo, his long - time fellow Democratic political nemesis, should stick to running the state jail system as the city continues to work towards reforming Rikers Island.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today he would finally bow to the urgings of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and countless left - wing activists and formulate a plan to shutter the Rikers Island detention complex over the next 10 years — although the crucial work of creating a new, diffuse jail system will fall upon his successor, regardless of whether the liberal Democrat wins re-election this fall.

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.

December 17, 2014 • The ACLU and the embattled sheriff's department have settled a class action lawsuit that will likely set in motion a number of changes within the nation's largest municipal jail system.

Vincent Schiraldi, a former NYC probation commissioner is in the running to take the helm of the scandal - scarred jail system.

Employees of NYC's violence - plagued jails system topped the list of municipal workers pulling in loads of overtime, but the highest earners were largely maintenance workers rather than uniformed officers.

Cuomo called NYCHA and the city's jail system glaring examples of racial and economic inequality.

«We can now move ahead with creating a borough - based jail system that's smaller, safer and fairer,» de Blasio crowed, announcing that he has secured the support of key City Council members for the scheme.

Jail records indicated Thursday night that there were no inmates named Zachary Cruz in the Broward County jail system.

This law barred the city jail system from complying with ICE requests to detain anybody not accused or convicted of a crime, not listed in federal gang or terror databases, or without a standing deportation warrants against them.

The changes, aimed at reducing violence in the city's troubled jail system, sparked criticism from some prisoner - rights advocates who called the policy changes unfair and counterproductive.

At the end of March, under pressure from left - wing activists and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to shutter the Rikers over the next 10 years and create a new, diffuse jail system.

December 9, 2013 • On Monday, federal prosecutors announced indictments against 18 current and former deputies of the L.A. Sheriff's department for corruption and civil rights abuses inside the nation's largest municipal jail system.

Look in your jail system before saying we're immoral... we comprise a whopping 1 % of it, while you christians comprise 75 %... if you're in jail it's usually due to having done something immoral and once again you do not stand for your constitution.

Zacarese has a detailed knowledge of the job, the department's budget, the deputies he would supervise and the jail system he would run.

Nor did he or the Council speaker have anything in the way of an actual detailed roadmap to reinventing the jail system.

«In partnership with the City Council, we can now move ahead with creating a borough - based jail system that's smaller, safer and fairer.

He also requested that the state take the hundreds of state parolees in the city's jail system and put them back into the state system.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city can close the notorious Rikers Island complex in less than 10 years, if Albany passes key criminal justice reforms, as he announced an agreement with the City Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail system.

But this is a critical role, and if the public are to have confidence in our jail system there needs to be a strong, independent chief inspector in post to hold the government to account.»

Kalief's story became one of the most widely - recognized condemnations of the jail system on Rikers Island and the cash bail system in New York City.

When you have kids coming in contact with the criminal justice system and ending up in the jail system and so on, that's when gangs really proliferate.»

A recently formed coalition is calling for a reduction in the use of solitary confinement and what they refer to as a «culture of brutality» in the city's jail system.

De Blasio appointed Joseph Ponte, the former Maine prisons chief, to reform the jail system.

DeMarco, a Conservative, has served 12 years in the countywide elected position as head of the Suffolk County jail system and sheriff's deputies.

A Mark - Viverito spokesman said the speaker seeks to shrink the number of detainees awaiting trial but not do away with the jail system.

This summer, the New York Times outlined the jail system's use violence against those with mental illness — like Mr. Murdough.

The de Blasio administration has also introduced a number of alternative - to - incarceration programs to divert individuals awaiting trial for low - level crimes away from the jails system.

It has sent directives to Erie County before, most notably in 2009, during a period of intense state and federal scrutiny of the county jail system, particularly the Holding Center.

«For too long, Rikers Island has been emblematic of the deep institutional flaws in our city's jail system.

Putting them in each borough would reduce the travel time to court appearances, speeding up the process and saving the city money, and allow for easier visitation by family members of those in the jail system.

It also comes several months after Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara issues a wide - ranging report that cited a «systematic culture of violence» in the jail system.

Community groups are renewing the call for reform inside the county's jail system.

Rumors have swirled that de Blasio is considering Banks as commissioner of the city's Department of Correction, putting him in charge of the jail system.

The new, borough - based jail system, which the commission argues would cut down on transportation and staffing costs while helping to better integrate the justice system back into the community, would cost $ 11.4 billion to build but could save the city $ 1.4 billion annually, according to the report.

De Blasio has said he wants to close Rikers in favor of a «smaller, safer fairer borough - based jail system.»

Cuomo doubled down on his attacks on the city's public housing and jail systems — calling both glaring examples of racial and economic inequality.

The payout to an outside consultant hired to stem the violence at Rikers Island has ballooned from $ 1.7 million to $ 27.4 million in less than three years — even as the city jails system has seen a significant spike in assaults, records show.

The allocation of millions of dollars in additional funds for McKinsey comes even as many measures of violence in the city's jails system are moving in the wrong direction.

There are roughly 10,000 inmates in the city's jail system, a vast majority of whom are housed on Rikers Island.

Mayoral spokeswoman Monica Klein said the city has no plans to relocate the jail system off of Rikers.