Sentences with phrase «of jail inmate»

Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple is on board with that: he's taking the cost of jail inmate healthcare out of taxpayers» wallets and into Obamacare, free for the incarcerated who enroll behind bars (and they can take it with them when they're released).

The wife of a jail inmate was charged with promoting prison contraband in connection with several of those overdose incidents.

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Not exact matches

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.

But he'd be a long shot given that a county jury recently recommended criminal charges against seven Milwaukee County jail staffers in the dehydration death of an inmate who went without water for seven days.

Most inmates are already entrepreneurs, because most of them are in jail for selling drugs.

Noel's findings led to a revamping of the trustee system, and the knowledge provided by one of the inmates even led to the arrest of a woman who tried to sneak drugs into the jail shortly after filming ended.

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.

If word gets to jail staff that one of the inmates has a contraband item, it could prompt security guards to carry out a raid of their cells.

During a raid, officers with the jail's Direct Action Response Team clear out inmates from sections of the jail, frisk them, and turn over their cells in search of the contraband.

One in five inmates at the Hennepin County jail last December self - reported a history of opioid use or abuse; an «astonishing» number said they'd overdosed, Sheriff Rich Stanek said Tuesday.

Approximately 12 % -13 % of the American population is African - American, but they make up 40.1 % of the almost 2.1 million male inmates in jail or prison

According to the United States Department of Justice, percentages range from 45 percent of federal prisoners to 56 percent of state prisoners and 64 percent of inmates in local jails.

Based off of percentage of inmates to percentage of people across the country, Christians have the highest percentage in jail right now.

The state is placing inmates in this position, waving a 30 - day «get out of jail free» card as a temporary reward for a long - term or permanent decision.

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.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics for 2004, there are more than 2.2 million inmates in the nation's jails.

As of 7:30 a.m. CT, Jones is still listed in the Tuscaloosa County Jail's inmate database.

There is a chance he may be able to simply walk out of the jail: several inmates did during the shooting of a T.I. video there several years ago.

After that six weeks in Sanford, McLain spent short stretches at two other jails before he wound up in what he regards as the very bottom of the belly of the beast, the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, the federal prison that two months after his release would become a site of rioting, destruction and hostage - taking by Cuban - born inmates.

I was curious to know more about what would make a woman fall in love with a man in jail (and as much as I'd love to say «a man fall in love with a woman in jail» evidently it's much more of a gal than guy thing, despite the presumably hard work of dating websites like Meet an Inmate and Inmate Connections).

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.

Exactly a year ago, some inmates of the Kumasi Central Prison sounded the alarm of a fire which had gutted the yard and while officers tried to put out the fire, some of the inmates attempted to break jail.

A former lieutenant at Brooklyn's federal jail was convicted of sexually assaulting five female inmates, bringing a close to a yearlong prosecution that involved two other guards at the jail and exposed a pattern of abuse at the facility, the Metropolitan Detention Center.

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

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.

The family of a 62 - year - old man who died last year in Nassau County jail custody has filed a $ 60 million federal lawsuit against the county and the facility's former medical provider, claiming the inmate died because he was denied proper care.

According to deputies at the Broome County Jail, roughly 75 percent of inmates are locked up on a drug - related charge.

One of the nation's best - known forensic pathologists, Dr. Michael Baden, helped determine that Holding Center inmate Richard A. Metcalf Jr. was suffocated by jail deputies and did not die of a heart attack as the Erie County medical examiner found in 2012.

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.

As a county lawmaker, Curran clashed with Sposato over his defense of the former jail medical vendor after a series of inmate deaths.

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

These inmates now make up nearly 40 percent of the jail population, but have long been overlooked, Mr. de Blasio said.

This agreement, approved today by the Westchester County Board of Acquisition and Contract, implements a resolution of the Government's findings regarding the Jail's use of force against inmates, its use of isolation as a method of discipline for minors incarcerated at the jail, and its provision of inadequate medical and mental health care to inmaJail's use of force against inmates, its use of isolation as a method of discipline for minors incarcerated at the jail, and its provision of inadequate medical and mental health care to inmajail, and its provision of inadequate medical and mental health care to inmates.

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.»

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.

«While I support the goal of eventually closing down Rikers, any proposal that involves diverting inmates to this already crowded complex is not a feasible solution,» Council Member Margaret Chin, from Chinatown, said of the lower Manhattan jail known as the Tombs

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.

Lansing and Mareane said it is likely that as a part of any agreement to restore the variance, the State will require the County to undertake studies that will project the future population of the jail and to design expansions that could house that population without resorting to boarding out inmates.

(Buffalo, New York)-- Erie County Comptroller Stefan I. Mychajliw released an audit of the county's cost for providing inmates healthcare in the jail and holding center.

Sheriff Lansing said the revocation of the permit follows many years of safe operation of the jail and an inmate population that has remained relatively low due to the success of the County's several alternatives - to - incarceration programs.

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 jails.

The annual expense of housing, or boarding - out, 18 inmates in out - of - county jails is estimated to be $ 558,000.

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.

The office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, released its findings in a graphic 79 - page report that described a «deep - seated culture of violence» against youthful inmates at the jail complex, perpetrated by guards who operated with little fear of punishment.

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.»

The superintendent of his Jail Management Division, Thomas Diina, met the deadline by sending Albany a letter stating he better understands a key provision in the state's definition of attempted suicide — whenever an inmate places one's self in a «life - threatening situation» — and told his command - level staff that the «intent of the inmate should not factor into how an incident is categorized.»

Onondaga County lawmakers approved a plan to put a dog kennel at the county jail in Jamesville, with the idea of helping inmates and stray dogs.

The suit was originally filed by the Legal Aid Society, and was eventually joined by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who wrote in a scathing report that there was a «culture of violence» against inmates in the city jails.