Sentences with phrase «young inmates»

While correction officers say solitary confinement is needed to control violent young inmates, our reporting found that teens are routinely sent for minor infractions.

A violent gang of six inmates left a New York City correction officer with a fractured spine after a premeditated beatdown at the George Motchan Detention Center on Rikers Island, in the specialized unit for younger inmates who act out.

In this film, Jessica Madsen plays one of four young inmates from a mental hospital - the other three played by Sam Coleman, Sam Strike, and James Bloor.

The medium - security Hudson Correctional Facility in Columbia County will be used to house minors, with the first group of young inmates moving in by August.

Rikers Island has been under a harsh spotlight for the last two years, following investigations from the press and a scathing report by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, which outlined what he deemed «a culture of violence» against young inmates by correction officers.

The city plans to hire professional «motivators» to teach correction officers how to be kinder and gentler to young inmates on Rikers Island.

He has expressed concern about the use of pepper spray in classrooms for young inmates at Rikers Island.

Bharara's comments came one week after he threatened to take «legal action» against the troubled jail, following a New York Times report that jail officials had provided misleading data to his office about violence at the facility, and less than two months after Bharara released a report in August that detailed a troubling «culture of violence» at the jail, particularly among young inmates.

Professor Espada takes pride in teaching nearly illiterate men to read, in counseling younger inmates, and in helping others work through their cases in the library.

At the end of September the DOC, under new Commissioner Joseph Ponte, announced a series of reforms pertaining to the treatment of young inmates after Bharara threatened to sue.

The allegations of abuse inflicted on young inmates at the Don Dale Youth Correctional Facility in the Northern Territory particularly overshadow the release of this report.

Actually the pope did wash the feet of two women today as it states in the article... «The 76 - year - old leader of a more than 1 billion Catholics called up 12 of the young inmates from different nationalities and «diverse religious confessions,» according to the Vatican.

The 76 - year - old leader of a more than 1 billion Catholics called up 12 of the young inmates from different nationalities and «diverse religious confessions,» according to the Vatican.

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.

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

NYC has failed to sign up young inmates for high school classes and in many cases neglected to develop special education plans for students, an audit by Comptroller Scott Stringer showed.

Although the plan announced Wednesday won bipartisan support, some Democratic critics accused Walker of being motivated by his political ambitions rather than a desire to do what's best for the young inmates.

The U.S. Attorney's report recommends removing the younger inmates whose circumstances it studied from Rikers — where people are typically held while awaiting trial before conviction, or sometimes for short sentences — and placing them in a different jail off the Island.

(Outposken Correction Officers Benevolent Association Norman Seabrook has often mocked Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley's insistence that young inmates be moved off Rikers by asking her to offer up space in her district.)

It is not clear what solitary will be replaced with, but DOC pledged to come up with a specific code of discipline for its young inmates by the end of the year that will be better suited to their developmental needs, the memo, first reported by the New York Times, said.

He followed up his directorial debut in 2000 with Animal Factory, a subdued prison drama starring Edward Furlong as a young inmate who finds protection from his fellow prisoners in the form of an older convict (Willem Dafoe).

A musician who sings in a gospel group at the prison where Brown is incarcerated, Bobby recognized the potential in the young inmate.

This program provides hope and life - long lessons for the young inmates.

This case also follows public outrage over the plight of Adam Capay, a young inmate who spent almost 4 years detained alone in a plexiglass basement cell in the Thunder Bay District Jail here in Ontario.