Sentences with phrase «rising violence»

A report from a federal monitor found rising violence at the jail complex despite attempts to improve conditions.

U.S. airlines are wagering that American tourists will keep flocking to Cancun despite rising violence in Mexico and a warning from the State Department.

Mayor Bill de Blasio will spend more $ 100 million and staff the Department of Correction with more uniformed officers than it has inmates — all in an effort to turn the tide of rising violence at Rikers Island that he warned will still take plenty of time.

Amid rising violence and several high - profile incidents — including the deaths of inmates and the slashing of a correction officer — Rikers Island has been under a harsh spotlight from prosecutors, the city's Department of Investigation, Mr. Stringer, and others.

The real Schutz explained yesterday in a statement that her experience as a mother coupled with rising violence against African - American men in America had compelled the work, which she hoped would help make Till's death not just his own mother's pain «but America's pain.»

While rising violence in American prisons precipitated the rush to supermax styles of confinement, Roy King concludes that the use of supermax custody today has become, at best, «a pre-emptive strategy that is almost certainly disproportionate in scale to the problems faced».

Born in an era of rising violence, Black Elk killed his first man at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his second cousin Crazy Horse, and traveled to Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

Since 2013, when Nicolás Maduro took power after the death of Hugo Chávez, the socialist country has struggled with skyrocketing inflation, food and medicine shortages, a shrinking economy and rising violence and corruption.

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, facing voter scorn over corruption, tepid economic growth and rising violence, loosened its rules earlier this month to allow it to form coalitions and let a non-party member run as its candidate in 2018 presidential elections.