Sentences with phrase «visited a state prison»

Governor Andrew Cuomo visited a state prison Thursday to announce he's hiring more guards, and to push for a change in how 16 and 17 year olds are treated in the state prison system.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited a state prison Thursday to announce he's hiring more guards, and to push for a change in how 16 - and 17 - year - olds are treated in the state prison system.

Cuomo says he's the first governor to visit a state prison since his father, Mario Cuomo.

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«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

And how many times did you get to the detention center and play basket ball with those troubled kids... and how many times last month did you visit that state prison I've been trying to get you visit?

seems to be social justice as Jesus states» 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.»

«One should not have to visit a prison to hear from leading political figures,» said the OSCE representative, stating the obvious fact, after being denied by the authorities to see Mrs Tymoshenko in jail.

Also at 10 a.m., Assembly members David Weprin and Carmen De La Rosa call for the restoration of seven - day visiting at state medium - security prisons and for the reinstatement of free transportation for the inmate visiting program, outside Senate Chambers, state Capitol, Albany.

The New York State Commission of Correction has longstanding authority to regulate and visit prisons.

O'Donnell, who chairs the Assembly's corrections committee, said he's visited about 30 prisons in the past three years and doesn't believe he has a lot of fans at the helm of the union that represents state correction officers, the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Associastate correction officers, the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent AssociaState Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association.

The acting head of the state prison system is backing a plan supported by Cuomo that would cut visiting days for those behind bars.

ALBANY — Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo made news earlier this week when he visited the empty Tryon Residential Center for Boys and decried the fact that there were still 30 state workers there, although there had been no youths in the Johnstown youth prison since July.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who visited the prison and viewed the escape route the day the two convicts vanished, had called it a crisis situation for the state with dangerous men on the loose.

The State Controller of Prisons, Alhaji Aliyu Achor, thanked the Chief Judge for putting smile on faces of the released inmates, admonishing those still under prison custody to maintain peace and keep their hope alive as next visit could be their turn.

When an inmate in a New York state prison is granted a compassionate leave to visit her dying mother, a young corrections officer who is looking to prove herself must do whatever it takes to escort her prisoner downstate and then bring her back on time.

In lean, luminous prose, Ward taps into her own chilling experiences visiting one of the state's women's prisons.

The artist stated, «Visiting the site I was struck by the symbolism of the barbed wires that surrounded the prison.

Cesarine stated, «Visiting the site I was struck by the symbolism of the barbed wires that surrounded the prison.

Prisons, state hospitals, and other institutions are often visited by specially appointed committees of observers or overseers.

The $ 132 billion spending proposal includes notable investments in education for foster youth in the state; a new home visiting program for moms receiving welfare; and a bid to divert some young adults from prisons into juvenile facilities.