Sentences with phrase «violence against inmates»

13 There is a common theme in cases involving brazen acts of violence against inmates.

Inmate advocacy groups have alleged violence against inmates at Clinton Correctional Facility, a charge that corrections officers have denied.

«If you're serious and consistent about ending violence against our inmates and our officers, then you're going to understand why we need common sense measures to stop weapons and drugs from getting into this facility,» said de Blasio then.

Not exact matches

My focus was on why lethal violence is not appropriate against abortionists and their staffs, when it would be considered heroic to use force to save, for instance, infants under attack or to free concentration camp inmates.

The de Blasio administration announced Wednesday that DOC is launching a $ 4.5 million safety and security initiative aimed at addressing violence by inmates against correction officers.

The office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, released its findings in a graphic 79 - page report that described a «deep - seated culture of violence» against youthful inmates at the jail complex, perpetrated by guards who operated with little fear of punishment.

The suit was originally filed by the Legal Aid Society, and was eventually joined by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who wrote in a scathing report that there was a «culture of violence» against inmates in the city jails.

Just weeks after the Times expose, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara released a scathing report on the «culture of violence» against Rikers» youngest inmates.

«During that same period the violence against other inmates increased by more than 60 percent.»

The Correction Officers Benevolent Association last month filed a federal suit of its own, alleging inmate violence is up 18 percent since de Blasio's decree and street gang members in custody are organizing against guards, who have been «punched, kicked, slashed, splashed with urine, feces or saliva, stabbed, held hostage, beaten severely or sexually assaulted by inmates.»

He held a press conference savaging the mayor and his correction commissioner on the steps of City Hall after a correction officer was badly slashed in the face, and has pushed back hard against many of de Blasio's efforts to bring reforms to Rikers Island to overcome what Bharara deemed, in a separate investigation, a culture of violence by guards against inmates.

Rikers Island has seen several instances of violence perpetrated against guards at the hands of inmates in recent years.

On Monday, a damning report by the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, about the «deep - seated culture of violence» against adolescent inmates at Rikers Island singled out the episodes as particularly deplorable.