Sentences with phrase «of young inmates»

At the end of September the DOC, under new Commissioner Joseph Ponte, announced a series of reforms pertaining to the treatment of young inmates after Bharara threatened to sue.

The medium - security Hudson Correctional Facility in Columbia County will be used to house minors, with the first group of young inmates moving in by August.

Not exact matches

On Sept. 4, to the cheers of fellow inmates wishing him well, Dennis Dale McLain, 43, walked out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Ala., where he had just finished serving almost as many months in prison (29 1/2) as games he had won pitching (31) for the Detroit Tigers in 1968 — the year he was the dominant player in baseball, the American League's Most Valuable Player and winner of its Cy Young Award.

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.

Just weeks after the Times expose, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara released a scathing report on the «culture of violence» against Rikers» youngest inmates.

It encourages the cutting of costs, the stuffing of inmates into overcrowded jails, with a reduced and under - paid staff of inexperienced young people, and the disorder and lack of rehabilitation that ensues.

New York City officials agreed to a plan that would eliminate the use of solitary confinement for all inmates 21 and younger, a move that would place the long - troubled Rikers Island complex at the forefront of national jail reform efforts.

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.

He has expressed concern about the use of pepper spray in classrooms for young inmates at Rikers Island.

It is not clear what solitary will be replaced with, but DOC pledged to come up with a specific code of discipline for its young inmates by the end of the year that will be better suited to their developmental needs, the memo, first reported by the New York Times, said.

He says the prisons» business model is dependent upon large groups of young men, primarily African American, becoming inmates.

Inmates of a range of ages were recruited from five category B and C prisons, a women's prison and a young offender institution, all in the West Midlands, and were randomly assigned to either a course of ten weekly yoga sessions of 90 minutes run by the Prison Phoenix Trust, or to a control group.

Here, he's almost the opposite of that character, a bright and seemingly optimistic young man who at first shrugs off things like his discomfort at being forced to strip in front of the «guards» to put on his prison outfit, but is trying to rally his fellow inmates to break out just 24 hours later.

In this film, Jessica Madsen plays one of four young inmates from a mental hospital - the other three played by Sam Coleman, Sam Strike, and James Bloor.

B - The Paperboy Rated R for strong sexual content, violence and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Precious director Lee Daniels chose for his follow - up this over-the-top adaptation of the Peter Dexter novel about a young man (Zac Efron) whose brother (Matthew McConaughey) has come back to his home town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate (John Cusack) with the help of the accused's fiancé (Nicole Kidman).

Oh yeah, Hartman knows that one of the escaped inmates is young Jedidiah Sawyer under an assumed name and is desperate to bring him in before the now - teenage boy can make contact with his family and pick up that chainsaw once again.

László Nemes) Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, this powerful and gripping Holocaust drama follows a concentration - camp inmate who goes to desperate lengths to secure a traditional Jewish burial for a young boy.

Keith, playing a fearless, humorous, gallant young tough, is perhaps the most impressive of the inmates.

The camera backs slowly away from Barbara Jean, then reverse - cuts, disclosing the small assembly in the chapel: Barnett, waiting for it all to be over; an earnest young girl nodding and moving her lips in accompaniment to that voice; a group of mostly aged friends and relatives of other hospital inmates; and two men, Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn) and Pfc. Kelly (Scott Glenn), keeping what will turn out to be deathwatches over the crucial women in their respective lives.

With 75 per ‑ cent of children in the UK spending less time outside than prison inmates (survey of 2,000 people commissioned by Persil as part of its «Dirt is Good» campaign) it's going to take more than just schools to get young people outside enough to reap the benefits; benefits that include not just self - development, but also increased academic attainment — one of the core functions of schools.

As a young lawyer defending poor inmates on Alabama's death row, Stevenson uncovers unconscionable flaws in the criminal justice system — racial bias, abuse of power, excessive punishment, denied access to legal counsel — concluding that «the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.»

At one time, it was basically a black prison — 98 percent of the inmates were black — and there were children as young as 12 sent there for petty crimes.

IHS founded the Inmate Dog Alliance Project of Idaho (IDAPI) where some of our most difficult to place shelter dogs — generally young, especially exuberant dogs — become well - socialized, trained family pets.

In one portrait of an inmate, Billy Owen, says, «If they can tell their story, if they can show their picture to a young man, and make them understand that this is what happens to you after 20 or 30 or 40 years of crime, I think they'd like to make that point.»

This case also follows public outrage over the plight of Adam Capay, a young inmate who spent almost 4 years detained alone in a plexiglass basement cell in the Thunder Bay District Jail here in Ontario.

The challenge seeks to do so to protect individuals from the severe harms of solitary confinement, in particular young adults, inmates in -LSB-...]

During Bar school he was Director of Streetlaw Prisons, a pro-bono organisation that educates prison inmates at Feltham Young Offenders Institution about their legal rights and responsibilities.

The allegations of abuse inflicted on young inmates at the Don Dale Youth Correctional Facility in the Northern Territory particularly overshadow the release of this report.

Most states still use their own facilities to care for elderly inmates, but the National Institute of Corrections estimates that, on average, states spend about $ 70,000 per year to incarcerate prisoners aged 50 or older, about three times what it costs to house a younger prisoner.