Sentences with phrase «stop jailing inmates»
NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito hit back at «naysayers» who are skeptical of her push to stop jailing inmates on violence - plagued Rikers Island, the most prominent of whom is her usual ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.
The settlement, papers for which were filed July 1, include installing cameras, reducing use of force against inmates, and an agreement to stop jailing offenders under the age of 18 at the facility.
It also wants to make life - term inmates wait 15 years between parole hearings, stop early inmate releases and have counties build tent jails to handle inmate overflow.