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NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito hit back at «naysayers» who are skeptical of her push to stop jailing inmates on violence - plagued Rikers Island, the most prominent of whom is her usual ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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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.
The resourcefulness of inmates was one aspect of jail life that was highlighted on «60 Days In,» an A&E documentary series that wrapped up its fourth season on Thursday.
Reagan County Sheriff James Garner, who oversees that jail, told CNN that no inmate there has ever spent that much money on phone cards.
Some of the changes include automated electronic sensors to ensure cell checks, an on - duty nurse or EMT at all times and additional funds for jail intaking, inmate screening and training for police there.
In New York's prisons and jails, simple menstruation supplies like pads and tampons can become bargaining chips, used to maintain control by correction officers, or traded among incarcerated women, according to former inmates and advocates on the issue.
The jail complex on Rikers Island has failed to comply with minimum safety standards and has become so dangerous, according to the state Commission on Correction, that it can no longer be permitted to accept inmate transfers from outside New York City.
According to deputies at the Broome County Jail, roughly 75 percent of inmates are locked up on a drug - related charge.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed an amendment clarifying the general prohibition on shackling pregnant inmates at prisons and county jails, including during travel and at medical appointments.
The ban on parcels also serves to desocialise and dehumanise inmates in a way which does nothing to improve their prospects once they leave jail.
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.
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.
There were 8,783 inmates at Rikers Island on Wednesday, and its average daily population for December was at 8,980, per the mayor's office, setting the jail on track to match a monthly average from 1982.
A Brooklyn jail guard who's on trial for forcing inmates to pleasure his huge, stinky, hooked penis also bragged that his nickname was «caballo» — «horse» in Spanish.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday unveiled his long - awaited plan to close the troubled jail and open or expand slammers in four boroughs to house the extra inmates.
New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ
This agreement, and the commitment on the part of the County to comply with its terms, are important steps toward ensuring that inmates at Westchester County Jail are treated in a manner consistent with the Constitution.»
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.
On the heels of an agreement by Albany County and a private medical provider to pay $ 1.1 million to the estate of a former jail inmate who died of a stroke after nurses waited 12 hours to call an ambulance, jail administrators from other counties told members of the state Assembly on Monday that such private contractors usually improve medical services in jailOn the heels of an agreement by Albany County and a private medical provider to pay $ 1.1 million to the estate of a former jail inmate who died of a stroke after nurses waited 12 hours to call an ambulance, jail administrators from other counties told members of the state Assembly on Monday that such private contractors usually improve medical services in jailon Monday that such private contractors usually improve medical services in jails.
RIKERS ISLAND — Five correction officers were convicted of attempted gang assault on Tuesday in the brutal 2012 beating of an inmate at the city jail.
2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»
Falco told the Rockland County Times that inmates do not have computer access, but they do have occasional access to telephones, and friends on the outside had been cooperating with them in getting the addresses of COs at the jail.
«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.
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.
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.
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.
Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco made national headlines when on January 4 he told the media his correction officers at Rockland County Jail had received taunts from inmates who now knew exactly where they lived thanks to the Journal News gun map.
It also comes as the inmate population in the city's jails is at an all - time low — meaning there will soon be more uniformed correction staff on the city payroll than inmates in its jails.
A federal judge on Wednesday approved landmark reforms at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex that will resolve claims that guards regularly used unnecessary force against inmates.
MANHATTAN — Violence at Rikers Island is on the rise even as the number of people housed at the troubled jail has declined and spending per inmate has increased dramatically, according to a report released Friday by Comptroller Scott Stringer.
The Times uncovered details on scores of assaults at Rikers Island through interviews with current and former inmates, correction officers and mental health clinicians at the jail, and by reviewing hundreds of pages of legal, investigative and jail records.
Cuomo has signed an amendment clarifying the general prohibition on shackling pregnant inmates at prisons and county jails, including during travel and at medical appointments.
«While we did not specifically investigate the use of force against the adult inmate population, our investigation suggests that the systemic deficiencies identified in this report may exist in equal measure at the other jails on Rikers,» prosecutors wrote in the report.
The report contains more than 70 recommendations for changes that the feds would like to see the de Blasio administration make, including mandating that the city house adolescent inmates in DOC jails not located on Rikers.
On a rainy afternoon at the Rikers Island Jail Complex in New York City this week, five men and one woman wearing tan uniforms sat in front of chess boards surrounded by an audience of correction officers and fellow inmates.
The City Council is introducing a package of bills on Tuesday to require the city's Department of Correction to provide detailed reports on inmates» demographic information and the department's use - of - force policy, and to create a crisis intervention plan at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex.
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.
One of the bills would require the department to provide quarterly reports on the jail's inmate demographics and include specific information such as their gang affiliation and their level of education.
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.
While the Rikers Island jail became increasingly dangerous for both guards and inmates, NYC Corrections Department Commissioner Joe Ponte was on vacation.
On the most basic level, our jail must provide its inmate population a full array of services, including meals, medical and mental health care, clothing and linens, laundry, visitation, mail and telephone, recreation, religious programs, and access to courts and attorneys.
That would bring the total headcount of uniformed staff to 10,220 — more than the 9,913 inmates that were in Department of Correction custody this morning, at its jails on and off Rikers Island.
Democrats in Nassau's legislature called Friday on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate what they called an «ongoing civil rights crisis» involving inadequate medical care at the county jail after a series of inmate deaths.
Those plans include charging Suffolk County up to $ 3 million a year to house as many as 100 of its inmates at a time in the Nassau jail in East Meadow, a surcharge on traffic tickets issued on the Long Island Expressway to raise $ 5 million and an increase in ambulance fees, charged to patients, to bring in $ 5 million.
While the population of the city's jails is lower than ever, there has been an increased focus on them, following news stories about brutality at the hands of correction officers, a rise in inmate - on - inmate violence, efforts to end or reduce solitary confinement and a federal lawsuit that alleged a «culture of violence» in the city's jails.
A Dept of Corrections insider told BW that Karl Volimer, who is an Assistant Warden at Westchester County Department of Correction since September 1985 (according to his LinkedIn page) allowed Ghost and his friend who is an inmate in the jail to hang out on the 2nd floor multi purpose room.
BW will keep the taxpayers informed on how County Executive Rob Astorino is handling the inmate unrest at the County Jail and what if anything Alonzo West, President of Westchester Correction Officers» Benevolent Association (COBA) is doing to insure the officers safety.
But what the insider wants the public to really be concerned about is the increase of inmate assaults on officers and the safety of the jail.
Valhalla — Officials are investigating how an actor who plays Ghost on Power, visiting the Westchester County Jail was apparently able to take a photo with an inmate in a cell last week, lohud reported.