Sentences with phrase «violence by inmates»

Despite all of the attention on Rikers, violence by both inmates and correction officers has continued to rise.

Despite all the changes, violence by inmates and correction officers has continued to rise under Mr. de Blasio.

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.

Not exact matches

Open to inmates with no record of violence and three years or fewer left on their sentence, it's hell by design, to hammer discipline into the inmates» heads, and provide the full military experience — beds made just so, clothes worn just so, everything done just so, even conversation, all in that rhythmic hoo - ah cadence.

So far, de Blasio has addressed the ongoing problems with violence and corruption at the city jail with a set of reforms led by Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, including ending solitary confinement for the island's youngest inmates.

The plan is designed to help curb violence and improve conditions at the troubled Rikers Island detention complex, which is plagued by violence and dangerous conditions for both correction officers and inmates.

Rikers has gained notoriety over the past few years for its culture of violence and corruption, including attacks on and by correction officers and a number of inmate deaths.

The number of inmates held in solitary confinement on New York City's Rikers Island has fallen sharply, in what city officials say is a sign of a gradual turnaround at a jail complex marred by allegations of violence and abuse.

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.

The city has struggled to contain violence at Rikers, but a City Hall spokeswoman said today that uses of force with serious injury dropped 23 percent in 2015, and assaults by inmates on staff with serious injury dropped by 11 percent in 2015.

MANHATTAN — Violence at Rikers Island is on the rise even as the number of people housed at the troubled jail has declined and spending per inmate has increased dramatically, according to a report released Friday by Comptroller Scott Stringer.

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

The Aug. 4 report, released by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, said that the civil rights of teenaged inmates were violated by correction officers» routine beatings for minor infractions, as part of «a deep - seated culture of violence» that permeated Rikers and also affected adult inmates.

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.»

Inmates at Rikers Island continue to be subjected to brutal violence by guards, a new report found.

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.

The city's jails and its Department of Correction have been in a harsh spotlight for the last two years, amid investigations from the press and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that alleged a culture of brutality by correction officers, climbing violence between inmates, and pledges of reform from Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner Joseph Ponte.

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.

And its closure would provide a firm break from the history of brutal violence on Rikers Island by inmates and, particularly, by correction officers that resulted in a 2015 federal court settlement.

Criminal justice advocates have called for shutting down Rikers Island because of the conditions there, including the level of violence between inmates, documented abuse of prisoners by the guards and substandard facilities and healthcare that has lead to multiple deaths.

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Lockout (PG - 13 for profanity, sexual references and intense violence) Futuristic, sci - fi thriller about a wrongly - convicted federal agent (Guy Pearce) who is offered a pardon in return for rescuing the President's daughter (Maggie Grace) from an outer space prison where she's been taken hostage by bloodthirsty inmates.

The movie follows modern day death row inmate Cal Lynch (Michael Fassbender) as he's forced to cybernetically tap into the memories of one of his assassin ancestors in order to find the Apple of Eden so that scheming scientist Alan Rikkin (Jeremy Irons) and his daughter Sophia (Marion Cotillard) may eliminate violence by extinguishing free will on behalf of all humanity.

Based on a true story, the film portrays the incessant violence and corruption experienced by the inmates of Santa Martha Acatitla, a Mexico prison, during the 1980s.