Sentences with phrase «troubled jail complex»

Cuomo again slammed the city's 10 - year timeline for shutting down the troubled jail complex at Rikers, calling it either «gross incompetence» or «a statement that you just don't care» - as well as unequal funding distribution for schools.

The independent commission studying Rikers Island officially released its recommendations for closing the troubled jail complex on Sunday, more than a year after the panel was convened and two days after Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York reversed course to back the plan.

Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed on Friday to close the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, which has spawned federal investigations, brought waves of protests and became a byword for brutality, in a move he said was intended to end an era of mass incarceration in New York City.

And Mr. de Blasio said he would spend $ 170 million to build a new correctional center for adolescents, which would allow the city to remove the roughly 180 adolescents housed on Rikers Island from the troubled jail complex.

A commission headed by former chief judge Jonathan Lippman, which recommended shutting down the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, said there should be smaller jails in each borough, near their courthouses.

Ponte also told the NYC Council he didn't know city rules banned him from using his government car for jaunts out of state, wasn't alarmed about an underling potentially eavesdropping on investigators — and admitted he hasn't even read a key report on closing Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex he oversees.

Not exact matches

De Blasio called the death of a mentally ill veteran in an overheated cell on Rikers Island «shocking and troubling» and vowed to make reforms to the city's sprawling jail complex, where violence has surged in recent years.

A federal judge on Wednesday approved landmark reforms at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex that will resolve claims that guards regularly used unnecessary force against inmates.

New York City officials agreed to a plan that would eliminate the use of solitary confinement for all inmates 21 and younger, a move that would place the long - troubled Rikers Island complex at the forefront of national jail reform efforts.

A new bureau inside the troubled Rikers Island jail complex has changed the way the Bronx district attorney handles crimes by inmates and visitors.

The City Council is introducing a package of bills on Tuesday to require the city's Department of Correction to provide detailed reports on inmates» demographic information and the department's use - of - force policy, and to create a crisis intervention plan at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex.

EAST ELMHURST — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday released his plan to close the troubled Rikers Island jail complex within 10 years, cautioning that it isn't a «quick fix.»

The number of personal injury claims filed against New York City for episodes at the Rikers Island jail complex and other city correctional facilities surged last year in what the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, called a troubling indication of a continuing plague of violence and mismanagement.