Sentences with phrase «young inmates at»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The inspection criticised the number of inmates being held at Cookham Wood, which has returned to the highest possible capacity of 143 young men, aged 15 - to - 17, following the previous inspection's demand that the numbers be cut back.

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.

Here, he's almost the opposite of that character, a bright and seemingly optimistic young man who at first shrugs off things like his discomfort at being forced to strip in front of the «guards» to put on his prison outfit, but is trying to rally his fellow inmates to break out just 24 hours later.

László Nemes) Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, this powerful and gripping Holocaust drama follows a concentration - camp inmate who goes to desperate lengths to secure a traditional Jewish burial for a young boy.

There is also a fatherhood program aimed at helping young men who have fathered children and a free legal clinic that tries to help newly released prison inmates clear up old legal issues and acclimate back into society.

At the same time, officials in Italy could not only track how much time an inmate spends interacting with an ebook using the same technology that parents and educators use for young readers, but they can also verify the user's annotations, highlights, or comments before assigning credit for having read the book.

At one time, it was basically a black prison — 98 percent of the inmates were black — and there were children as young as 12 sent there for petty crimes.

Cameron Rowland, a young New York artist, has recently mounted several exhibitions whose everyday objects conceal vicious economic realities, such as compulsory inmate labor, at well below minimum wage, in New York prisons.

During Bar school he was Director of Streetlaw Prisons, a pro-bono organisation that educates prison inmates at Feltham Young Offenders Institution about their legal rights and responsibilities.