Sentences with phrase «number of inmates»

The average daily number of inmates held in the city's jails has fallen to a 31 - year low of 10,240, while the annual cost per inmate rose 17 percent in the past fiscal year.

Managed a large number of inmates on a daily basis to ensure appropriate nutrition, hygiene, medical care, activities, etc. were provided

The many programs and their providers are to be applauded, and given the increasing number of inmates who are mentally ill, prisons need even more resources dedicated to treating the medical conditions of offenders.

The number of incarcerated people has consistently grown year over year while the percentage of inmates in private prisons has also grown as a percentage of the total number of inmates.

Others take issue with the idea that private corporations profit off of the nation's predilection for incarceration, rewarded for the sheer number of inmates they can house rather than for successful rehabilitation and reentry outcomes.

Lehrer noted that the plan calls for a detention center in each borough except Staten Island, which de Blasio chalked up to the small number of inmates originating there — and to resistance from Councilwoman Debi Rose, whose district covers the courts.

If the propositions fail, the governor said he will have to make cuts to schooling and health care and would likely need to release a large number of inmates from the state's prison system.

Policies that are accepted in the outside world — including the provision of clean needles for people who inject drugs — are seen as impossible behind bars, even though drugs can be obtained in prison and a disproportionate number of inmates have a history of drug use.

Blacks make up a disproportionately high number of those inmates, he said.

With the massive increase in criminal activity, neither Arkham Asylum nor Blackgate Prison is able to contain the large number of inmates.

More than 6,000 passport - sized photographs and negatives of bound and tagged prisoners taken by the Khmer Rouge (only a fraction of the total number of inmates) are now housed in archives at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, which occupies the site of the former prison.

Being given 2 to 3 bottles of water [a day, until] it was raised to 5 because the number of inmates going into dehydration.

Two judges, President Judge Mark Ciavarella and Senior Judge Michael Conahan, were accused of accepting money from Robert Mericle, builder of two private, for - profit juvenile facilities, in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh sentences on juveniles brought before their courts to increase the number of inmates in the detention centers.

High crime rates have so swelled the number of inmates that officials find it difficult to feed and house all of them; the pressure to set some free is hard to resist.

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that crowding at California prisons constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, and ordered the state to reduce the number of inmates by more than 30,000.

The number of inmates has soared and outcomes are worse than they've been for a decade.

New York's prison population is decreasing, but the number of inmates age 50 and over rose 46 percent from 2007 to 2016, and the state must adjust its policies to meet the unique needs of this population, according to a report issued today by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

New York City jails drastically have reduced the number of inmates in solitary confinement.

The analysis published Thursday by the New York City - based Osborne Association found that in the last decade, the number of inmates over 50 has increased by 46 percent despite an overall 17 percent decline in the number of people behind bars.

Rikers has gained notoriety over the past few years for its culture of violence and corruption, including attacks on and by correction officers and a number of inmate deaths.

The program has already diverted 3,700 people from jail, 92 % of whom showed up to court; the expansion could reduce the number of inmate beds necessary by 500 over five years, according to the plan.

«We are trying to see how we can reduce the number of inmates awaiting trial.

Earlier this month, reports surfaced that a number of inmates at Clinton Correctional were beaten by guards immediately following the escape.

The number of inmates in England and Wales hit a record high of 87,000 last Friday, a result of the prison population rising by 1,000 since the riots took place.

The five - year, $ 62 million agreement is expected to reduce the number of inmates in solitary confinement by at least a quarter and usher in a range of reforms, including limiting the time served to three months in most cases and providing the prisoners with certain privileges, like monthly phone calls and group recreation.

The inspection criticised the number of inmates being held at Cookham Wood, which has returned to the highest possible capacity of 143 young men, aged 15 - to - 17, following the previous inspection's demand that the numbers be cut back.

The sheriff had come under fire during the campaign for issues including the number of inmate deaths at the Erie County Holding Center since he took office in 2005, as well as a recent sex discrimination lawsuit filed against him by a now - retired Holding Center officer.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has taken several steps to address the problems at Rikers, such as hiring additional correction officers, improving training and sharply reducing the number of inmates in solitary confinement.

A central tenet of the report calls for reducing the number of inmates in the city to 5,000, from the current average of about 10,000, within 10 years.

The bill, which Mr. de Blasio says he supports, would compel the department to publish quarterly reports that include information about the number of inmates in solitary confinement, their length of stay and whether they were injured, sexually or physically assaulted, or subjected to use of force by correction officers.

Controller of the prison, Mr Lawrence Okonkwo, confirmed the jail break but declined to give the number of inmates that escaped.

Mahoney has been covering politics for decades and offers his perspective on the state and national elections in» 08, new legislation to cut down on the number of inmates being paroled, Governor Spitzer's budget proposal and a lot more.

In 15 years, from 1995 to 2010, the U.S. prison population experienced a 282 percent increase in the number of inmates 55 and older.

You will be able to meet a number of inmates in just a few hours.

Not only do governments pay private prisons for their services, but they also write the laws that would lead to positive or negative changes in the number of inmates that are incarcerated.

Following the first of these stories, the CSC launched a strategy to attempt to reduce the number of inmates housed in isolation.

The number of inmates placed in solitary confinement and the length of their stays have decreased significantly; however, Mr. Zinger reported that the conditions of segregation remain problematic.

(1/6/2012) Houston Chronicle Jail Population decrease eases overcrowding: Earl Musick, president of Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, cheered the drop in jail population, but said his group remains concerned at the number of inmates who are awaiting trial, unable to make bail.

Despite the very quickly growing success of these units, there is still a long way to go before a real dent is made in the number of inmates wrongfully incarcerated throughout the country.

We calculate this fee by dividing the number representing Bureau facilities» monetary obligation (excluding activation costs) by the number of inmate - days incurred for the preceding fiscal year, and then by multiplying the quotient by 365.

The number of inmate - on - inmate assaults fell at the Ottawa - Carleton Detention Centre last year, although incidents still occur on average more than once every two days, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

The number of inmates has come down in recent years and that, combined with incidents of assault and other problems, helped lead to Thursday's decision to phase out contracts with private operators.