Sentences with phrase «on corrections officers»

Senator Jeff Klein recently released an alarming report analyzing the growing problem of assaults on corrections officers and staff and the seemingly unabated flow of contraband into our prisons.

They warned, several on the basis of personal experience, that participating in executions can exact a «severe toll on corrections officers» wellbeing» and that by doing so many so quickly Arkansas was «needlessly exacerbating the strain and stress placed on these officers».

[This meeting has been cancelled in light of a serious attack on a corrections officer.]

Authorities in June raided Rikers looking for weapons, drugs and other contraband — focusing on correction officers» lockers and break rooms.

An inmate at the Cortland County Jail is accused of spitting on a corrections officer early Thursday

At 1 p.m. Monday at City Hal, the correction officers union will hold a press conference «following the vicious attack on a correction officer by two Rikers inmates.»

«At a time when assaults on correction officers are rising, while punishments to assaultive inmates are declining, Mayor Bill de Blasio has left New York City for Iowa today to begin his political pursuit of winning the presidency,» said Elias Husamudeen, President of COBA.

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When a corrections officer informs you, «you're on the draft,» you have about 30 minutes to pack up everything you've accumulated (letters, books, family photos) while in prison.

The 150 - page report, released by state Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott on the one - year anniversary of the escape, goes into the detailed plannings of Matt and Sweat, including their efforts to recruit prison employees like seamstress Joyce Mitchell and corrections officer Gene Palmer.

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.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio today will visit a facility on Rikers Island and meet with correction officers and staff — an event that is closed to members of the press.

► Murray Huberfeld — Head of the Platinum Partners hedge fund, who was arrested on June 8, 2016, for allegedly bribing Norman Seabrook, head of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association.

Crisis Intervention Team training on Rikers Island uses actors portraying inmates to teach correction officers and health workers to navigate difficult situations.

The leader of the state corrections officers union is urging members to boycott the Watertown Daily Times and the newspaper published a story last Thursday on abuse allegations at a northern New York prison.

Rechnitz told the jury at Seabrook's trial that he delivered a $ 60,0000 br ibe to the once - powerful head of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association in December 2014 on behalf of hedge fund executive Murray Huberfeld.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's office did an abrupt about - face Wednesday over plans to use the Queens Detention Complex as an additional Department of Corrections training facility, after receiving sharp criticism from the correction officers» union and key Queens officials, who say they were never briefed on the decision.

A Lakeview corrections officer has been arrested by New York State Police on rape and misconduct charges.

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.

Indeed, a review of the statute's legislative memoranda and other supporting materials on file in the state library indicate lawmakers who voted in favor of the statute never considered that it would be used to conceal misconduct by police or correction officers.

Yesterday, the mayor visited a facility on Rikers and met with correction officers and staff, a meeting that was closed to press — four days after he unveiled the roadmap.

At 11:45 a.m., Democratic NYC mayoral frontrunner Bill de Blasio appears live on WWRL with Norman Seabrook, president of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday evening vetoed legislation that would boost pension benefits for deputy sheriffs and county corrections officers, writing that legislators failed to fund the cost of the measure.

BRONX SUPREME COURT — Six of the correction officers convicted of the brutal beating of a Rikers Island inmate in 2012 were sentenced to prison time on Friday and will head back to Rikers Island for processing before getting sent upstate.

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that four Rikers Island inmates have been indicted on Gang Assault and related crimes for attacking a Correction Officer, causing serious injuries including a fractured spinal column.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled today his solution to the ongoing conflict over pension payouts to cops, firefighters, corrections officers and sanitation workers hurt on the job — but union leaders said they remain unsatisfied.

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.

We would have to do capital improvements on our current jail and we would have to maintain all of the corrections officers that we have now resulting in actually paying more money in the long term than if we did not bond out,» says Borchert.

Taylor's guilty plea comes on the heels of eight correction officers being sentenced for both beating and attempting to cover up the beating of inmate Jahmal Lightfoot.

Correction Officers» Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, who was arrested on fraud and corruption charges Wednesday morning, described the convictions in a statement as «an absolute travesty» that showed how correction officers are disrespected for doing tCorrection Officers» Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, who was arrested on fraud and corruption charges Wednesday morning, described the convictions in a statement as «an absolute travesty» that showed how correction officers are disrespected for doing theOfficers» Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, who was arrested on fraud and corruption charges Wednesday morning, described the convictions in a statement as «an absolute travesty» that showed how correction officers are disrespected for doing tcorrection officers are disrespected for doing theofficers are disrespected for doing their jobs.

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.

Suspended corrections officer Gene Palmer was arraigned in Clinton County Court Wednesday on charges related to his role in the escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat from the Clinton Correctional Facility last June.

Westchester County is giving a Correction Officers examination on Saturday April 14 2012 at the New Rochelle High School.

For the third year in a row, the state Committee on Open Government is calling for the repeal or overhaul of a controversial statute that blocks public access to the disciplinary records of police and correction officers, as well as firefighters.

Lightfoot declined to comment on the proceedings through his attorney Sanford Rubenstein, who said the sentences showed that correction officers were not above the law.

Ten people, including a correction officer at Clinton Correctional, have been indicted on federal charges for their alleged involvement in a heroin distribution ring more

Correction Officers» union chief Norman Seabrook was busted by the feds Wednesday morning on corruption charges.

Nearly one year ago, with the help of a prison tailor shop instructor and a correction officer, Richard Matt and David Sweat cut into their cell walls and into a steam pipe and crawled through it to emerge through a manhole on a street in the village of Dannemora.

Following the settlement of a federal lawsuit that alleged a culture of violence among correction officers on Rikers Island, the Department of Correction will unveil a new use of force policy to its employees tomorrow, prohibiting certain maneuvers and encouraging officers to avoid force whencorrection officers on Rikers Island, the Department of Correction will unveil a new use of force policy to its employees tomorrow, prohibiting certain maneuvers and encouraging officers to avoid force whenCorrection will unveil a new use of force policy to its employees tomorrow, prohibiting certain maneuvers and encouraging officers to avoid force when possible.

The claims are on the rise at a time when the city is pouring money into trying to reform Rikers Island, spending $ 112,000 per inmate a year and boosting its budget with a plan to hire more correction officers.

Scrapping the payout would save the city an estimated $ 1 billion a year — «the equivalent cost of more than 10,000 teachers, police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers, and correction officers,» Bloomberg told legislators on Monday.

Curran requested the documents in letters on Dec. 1 to the Civil Service Employees Association, Police Benevolent Association, Superior Officers Association, Detectives Association and Correction Officers Benevolent Association.

Ten people, including a correction officer at Clinton Correctional, have been indicted on federal charges for their alleged involvement in a heroin distribution ring

Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco made national headlines when on January 4 he told the media his correction officers at Rockland County Jail had received taunts from inmates who now knew exactly where they lived thanks to the Journal News gun map.

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

Opposing Greene on the Republican, Conservative and Independence Party lines is Kevin Hines, a retired corrections officer who is currently a service technician for Kingston Fire Equipment and assistant chief of the Bloomington Fire Company.

On Jan. 30, a slimmed - down Matthews, wearing prison greens, shackled hand and foot and escorted by a pair of state corrections officers, appeared briefly in the hallways of the Ulster County Courthouse en route to a holding pen where he was to await a hearing on his alleged failure to abide by restitution order imposed by the court last year as part of his sentence on two counts of grand larcenOn Jan. 30, a slimmed - down Matthews, wearing prison greens, shackled hand and foot and escorted by a pair of state corrections officers, appeared briefly in the hallways of the Ulster County Courthouse en route to a holding pen where he was to await a hearing on his alleged failure to abide by restitution order imposed by the court last year as part of his sentence on two counts of grand larcenon his alleged failure to abide by restitution order imposed by the court last year as part of his sentence on two counts of grand larcenon two counts of grand larceny.

Ten people, including a correction officer at Clinton Correctional, have been indicted on federal charges for their alleged involvement in a Plattsburgh heroin distribution ring.

Mr. Seabrook, the colorful leader of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, has been called by some a roadblock to reform at the city's jails on Rikers Island.

«You're putting that jail in the south Bronx across that bridge right here or you're putting it down the street on 125th Street somewhere or you're putting it in Bedford Stuyvesant or you're putting it in Red Hook,» said Norman Seabrook, president of the New York City Correction Officer's Benevolent Association.

Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson yesterday announced the indictment of Rikers Island Correction Officer Carol Lackner for failing to tour and inspect the cells of inmates under her charge on the overnight period of February 14 - 15, 2014, and then making -LSB-...]