Sentences with phrase «punitive segregation for»

Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference this afternoon on Rikers Island, the City's main jail complex, announcing the recent end of punitive segregation for 16 and 17 year old inmates.

Punitive segregation for adolescents is being eliminated and the maximum amount of time for other inmates is being reduced to 30 days from 90 days.

But Correction Officers Benevolent Association President Elias Husamudeen said the problem of increased jail violence originated in October 2016, when Mayor de Blasio ordered a halt to punitive segregation for detainees younger than 22.

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Union leaders remain fiercely defensive — about corruption in their ranks, allegations of brutality against inmates and about the need for punitive segregation to keep staff safe.

Natavia Lowery, who stands accused of killing broker Linda Stein, for whom she worked as a personal assistant, resides in the «punitive segregation» section...

To truly address the issue of solitary confinement, Governor Cuomo should create a timeline for discontinuing the use of all solitary confinement and punitive segregation throughout the state prison system.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.