Sentences with phrase «officers by inmates»

There have been several attacks (at least 12 this year our sources tell us) of correction officers by inmates but for some reason the press hasn't covered many if any of these incidents.

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Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

At the same time, the report determined «basic security functions» were not being followed at the North Country prison, including a failure by corrections officers at the front gate to search employees» bag entering the prison, nightly counts of inmates not being conducted at the times, searches of cells that were deemed inadequate and the poor supervisor of inmates by employees and security stagff.

Some prison officers are suspected of aiding the inmates by smuggling the phones and other prohibited items to them in their cells.

He attributed the ability of some of the inmates to beat the checkpoint to lack of scanners at the entrance and gave an assurance that close circuit television (CCT) cameras would be fixed at strategic locations in the prison next month to help expose any form of wrongdoing by the officers and the inmates.

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.

Suicide attempts are being misclassified by correction officers as «individual inmate disturbances» at the Erie County Jail.

The de Blasio administration announced Wednesday that DOC is launching a $ 4.5 million safety and security initiative aimed at addressing violence by inmates against correction officers.

«Fewer officers were seriously hurt by inmates last year than in every year from 2012 through 2015,» said Deputy Correction Commissioner Peter Thorne.

The plan is designed to help curb violence and improve conditions at the troubled Rikers Island detention complex, which is plagued by violence and dangerous conditions for both correction officers and inmates.

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.

Despite all the changes, violence by inmates and correction officers has continued to rise under Mr. de Blasio.

The regulations will also require the decision to confine a pregnant inmate is reviewed by the chief administrative officer and that any time essential services are denied to an inmate, the commission review the decision.

The Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, opened the bureau in September 2016 to handle crimes by inmates, fulfilling a campaign promise and addressing a longstanding demand by the union representing correction officers.

Ms. Clark's predecessor, Robert T. Johnson, had been criticized by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Correction Officers Benevolent Union for delays in prosecuting cases against inmates, even as slashings and assaults continued to rise.

City taxpayers will shell out $ 3.8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of an inmate who died when Rikers Island correction officers failed to get help after...

Inmates are subjected to regular beatings by correction officers, according to a class action lawsuit.

Attica Correctional Facility has been on lockdown since Sunday following a series of fights among prison inmates, according to a statement released yesterday by the state corrections officer union.

For days after the June prison break by Richard Matt and David Sweat, Clinton Correctional Facility officers carried out what seemed like a campaign of retribution against dozens of inmates, particularly those on the honor block, an investigation by The New York Times found.

What about the unsafe conditions that inmates are put in by officers that have mental, substance and control problems!!!

The state corrections department named a new superintendent for the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon — Robert Cunningham — and vowed to review «safety concerns» after the April death of a prisoner who inmates said was handcuffed and badly beaten by a group of corrections officers.

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.

The state correctional officers union is slamming the chair of the Assembly Correction Committee, Manhattan Democrat Danny O'Donnell, for saying at a recent hearing that former Fishskill Correctional Facility inmate Samuel Harrell was murdered by state employees.

While prison officials have not confirmed or denied the family's account, an autopsy performed by the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office ruled inmate Samuel Harrell's April 2015 death a homicide provoked by «physical altercation with corrections officers.»

Records show officers stood by, and one even watched, during a prisoner's assault on another inmate in 2014 at the Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie.

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.

Also in attendance at the event was correction officer Raymond Calderon, who was brutally attacked last week by two teenage inmates.

«There may be a few that react with what you might think is excessive force,» said Seabrook, «but in defense of an officer being assaulted by an inmate, a correction officer must use whatever force is necessary to terminate the assault.»

The Aug. 4 report, released by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, said that the civil rights of teenaged inmates were violated by correction officers» routine beatings for minor infractions, as part of «a deep - seated culture of violence» that permeated Rikers and also affected adult inmates.

Two women were on Thursday arrested by officers of the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) for attempting to smuggle 39 parcels of dried leaves suspected to be marijuana and other prohibited items to inmates at the Ankaful Maximum Security Prison.

The Correction Officers Benevolent Association last month filed a federal suit of its own, alleging inmate violence is up 18 percent since de Blasio's decree and street gang members in custody are organizing against guards, who have been «punched, kicked, slashed, splashed with urine, feces or saliva, stabbed, held hostage, beaten severely or sexually assaulted by inmates.»

In 1977, New York's highest court effectively struck down the death penalty for the murder of a police officer or a correctional officer, and a 1984 ruling struck down capital punishment for murders committed by inmates serving life sentences, effectively abolishing New York's death penalty.

Pictures of the four correction officers assaulted by inmates in NYC in the last five weeks.

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.

In addition to the allegations by Burks, the suit contends that the maximum - security prison, where 50 percent of the inmates are black and not one of nearly 1,000 officers are black, is rife with inappropriate behavior by staff.

That inmate, Patrick Alexander, later had a plastic bag placed over his head and was beaten by officers, who threatened to waterboard him, the suit claims.

A Rikers Island guard admitted to covering up and lying about the brutal beating of an inmate, who died after being repeatedly punched and kicked in the head by another officer.

An inmate awaiting trial for allegedly shooting someone in the leg escaped from a Brooklyn detention facility by telling correction officers he was someone else, officials said.

Three New York State corrections officers were arrested by FBI agents this morning on conspiracy and fraud charges in connection with the beating of an inmate who sustained numerous broken bones and a collapsed lung, and had his dreadlocks ripped out.

The city will also have to meet officer - to - inmate ratios mandated by the settlement of that federal lawsuit, and needs to comply with other laws that require higher ratios for female and transgender inmates, and is seeking to address increasing overtime costs.

He held a press conference savaging the mayor and his correction commissioner on the steps of City Hall after a correction officer was badly slashed in the face, and has pushed back hard against many of de Blasio's efforts to bring reforms to Rikers Island to overcome what Bharara deemed, in a separate investigation, a culture of violence by guards against inmates.

In Westchester County alone, Correction Officer operates housing units with up to 60 inmates by him / herself, no weapon, no nightstick, no radio, just a body alarm.

Black Westchester has been informed by a reliable source that inmate Michael Howard, who was already charged with attacking and braking Correction Officer Dwayne Boland's jaw has now injured three more officers.

The city's jails and its Department of Correction have been in a harsh spotlight for the last two years, amid investigations from the press and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that alleged a culture of brutality by correction officers, climbing violence between inmates, and pledges of reform from Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner Joseph Ponte.

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.

Two inmates were strapped to gurneys, taken to a clinic in a mental health unit and beaten so badly by correction officers that blood splattered the walls and witnesses described feeling sick to their stomachs.

During Mr. Bloomberg's last term in office, use of force by officers against inmates jumped by 90 percent.

And its closure would provide a firm break from the history of brutal violence on Rikers Island by inmates and, particularly, by correction officers that resulted in a 2015 federal court settlement.

The investigator, Florence L. Finkle, is leaving less than a month after a damning federal inquiry chronicled assaults on teenage inmates by guards at Rikers, and criticized the division she oversaw as «ineffectual,» «understaffed» and biased in favor of correction officers.

«The mayor has apparently given up on keeping the jails safe for both correction officers and inmates, as evidenced by the 18 percent increase in slashings and stabbings last year,» said COBA President Elias Husamudeen.