Sentences with phrase «of city jail»

That painting is a mixture of looking at the lion's cage in the zoo, observing the lion in the zoo and sort of turning it inside out with the lion on the exterior of the city jail.

And Ms. Mark - Viverito has rolled out plans for a bail fund, to help some of those people Ms. Clinton mentioned get out of city jails.

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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.

In his famed Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. King called out eight of his fellow clergy members who'd asked him to delay civil rights demonstrations in the city.

The author founded an anti-corruption campaign that resulted in putting «a couple of municipal politicians and a developer in jail,» and she was subsequently elected to council for the City of York.

At the height of the watershed civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963, as the battle in the streets turned in favor of the demonstrators, a jubilant Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed an overflow crowd at St. Luke's Baptist Church and saluted those who had braved police dogs and filled the city's jails.

The Bishop of Leicester has said sorry for the «pain and anguish» suffered by victims of a choirmaster who was jailed for sexually abusing choirboys in the city.

In his «Letter from Birmingham Jail,» King spoke to the white clergy of that city, but also to the nation and to the world.

Instead of finishing his term running the capital city through October, Ahok will now have to appeal his conviction from jail.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Mike Huckabee closed his keynote on the «curse» of «judicial supremacy» with an extended quotation from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham City Jail.

The Secular City was written during a hectic period of a few months in 1964 while I teaching at Andover Newton, working in a lively new black parish in Roxbury and serving a few days» time in a southern jail.

Fortunately for Ruth and the Yankees, a day in the city's jail ended at 4 o'clock rather than at midnight, allowing the one - day prisoners the benefit of the discrepancy between the solar and the penitential day.

Elsewhere, Manchester City and Chelsea both won, whilst Liverpool played three get out of jail cards in their 3 - 2 win at QPR.

Then in 2008 he was jailed for assaulting a 16 - year - old in Liverpool city centre, which he then topped up by stubbing out a cigar on the eye of a City youth team player in Thailcity centre, which he then topped up by stubbing out a cigar on the eye of a City youth team player in ThailCity youth team player in Thailand.

She has worked with incarcerated individuals, families, adolescents, and college students in a variety of settings, including county and city jails, community mental health centers, university counseling centers, and hospitals.

New York City will soon change the way mentally ill inmates are disciplined after breaking rules while in jail, creating alternatives to the more traditional approach of solitary confinement used for most inmates.

De Blasio called the death of a mentally ill veteran in an overheated cell on Rikers Island «shocking and troubling» and vowed to make reforms to the city's sprawling jail complex, where violence has surged in recent years.

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.

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

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The city wants to build an entirely new jail on the site of the NYPD's Bronx tow pound in Mott Haven, reopen the shuttered Queens Detention Center in Kew Gardens and expand still - operating Manhattan and Brooklyn detention centers.

Ponte also told the NYC Council he didn't know city rules banned him from using his government car for jaunts out of state, wasn't alarmed about an underling potentially eavesdropping on investigators — and admitted he hasn't even read a key report on closing Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex he oversees.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an agreement with the City Council to open or expand jails in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx as part of a plan to phase out the troubled island - based jail in the East River.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano on Monday announced the appointments of three veterans of New York City government to new or long - unfilled posts meant to reform the county's contracting system and oversight of its jail.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson have announced an agreement to replace Rikers Island with a series of community - based jail facilities located near borough courthouses.

Banksy returned to New York City this past week, painting a mural on Houston St. honoring a jailed Turkish artist, and adding a scurrying rat to the clock of an old bank building slated for demolition on W. 14th St.. The artwork on the famed...

So far, de Blasio has addressed the ongoing problems with violence and corruption at the city jail with a set of reforms led by Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, including ending solitary confinement for the island's youngest inmates.

Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio has been sentenced to jail as a result of fallout from her earlier drunk driving conviction.

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.

The crime is currently a Class B misdemeanor in the state, which means that suspects rarely — if ever — spend time in jail, said City Councilman Peter Vallone, chair of the council's Public Safety committee.

Mark - Viverito's call for Ponte to quit came after an investigation last month by the city's anti-graft watchdog agency found that he had been out of town for a quarter of 2016 as violence and corruption plagued the Rikers Island jail complex.

Before closing Rikers Island, the city must fix the culture of violence within the jail complex, according to JoAnne Page, president and CEO of the Fortune Society.

«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.

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/2jTCity 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/2jTcity, 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/2jTcity 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/2jTcity employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

«Today, New York City has the lowest incarceration rate of all large U.S. cities and crime rates continue to fall, proving that a large city can have small jails and safe communities,» the mayor said in an emailed statemCity has the lowest incarceration rate of all large U.S. cities and crime rates continue to fall, proving that a large city can have small jails and safe communities,» the mayor said in an emailed statemcity can have small jails and safe communities,» the mayor said in an emailed statement.

As crime rates continue to drop, reducing the rate of formerly incarcerated people returning to jail will help the city move closer toward shutting Rikers down.

Malliotakis also touched on familiar criticisms of Mayor de Blasio, saying that he «ties the hands of law enforcement» and ignores the will of City residents in areas such as his plan to build 90 shelters for the homeless and his newly adopted goal of replacing Rikers Island with jails throughout the City.

De Blasio's plan to close the jail complex is expected to take 10 years and puts the onus of picking where the smaller jails will be located on the City Council.

Robert Perris, district manager of Community Board 2, said the jail as it is now has been a good neighbor but he expects opposition if the city tries again to increase capacity.

But the mayor's plan outsources, to the City Council, the fraught duty of picking where those jails go.

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.

At 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Women's Caucus and advocates celebrate the passage of the nation's first menstrual equity policy to make pads and tampons free and readily available at public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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 abCity'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 abcity officials say is a sign of a gradual turnaround at a jail complex marred by allegations of violence and abuse.

A Rochester City Court judge continues to draw a $ 174,000 - a-year paycheck despite being stripped of her judicial duties after driving drunk to work, being jailed for skipping a court date and taking an extended trip to a monastery in the mountains of Thailand.

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 macity jail guards, and the political fundraising activities of several people with ties to New York City's maCity's mayor.

He said that city leaders «don't want to see people going to jail simply because they can't afford a small amount of bail for a minor offense,» but said that «there's more than one way to address that issue» and that he is «particularly focused on... some of the efforts to have a supervised release effort for very low - level crimes that we've seen done effectively before.»

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.»

O'Donnell, a former public defense attorney, who often visited clients in New York City's jails, also in the letter expressed concern that the newest corrections officers are placed on the 3 to 11 PM shift, when most of an unusually high number of incidents involving assaults occur.