Entrance at 42nd street and eighth avenue. Today their new gate put them two blocks south on 40th street. We were on the third floor in this building over here. They moved us to the other building on the fourth. Its like an obstacle course. I was expecting some delays because its the day after labor y, especially with all the schools starting and everything. Reporter the goal is to minimize traffic jams around the port authority, which caused congestion at the y ncoln tunnel. On this first day of changes, an accident in the tunnel caused long delays. There was some traffic in the tunnel. Probably took me an hour and ten minutes as opposed to 45. Reporter it was more maddening today being stuck in traffic because of the accident in the lincoln tunnel. As for the gate changes, this is the pamphlet that was being handed out today. The information is on our website, nbcnewyork. Com. Katherine craig, news 4 new york. We broke a record. When it will finally cool down. A story a lot of you ar
Of supervisors and that was that they ask the budget and legislative analyst to conduct review of Workers Compensation payments and relationship between Workers Compensation and overtime and we would work the input op this issue. The third recommendation is that we should review Safety Programs with Work Development and we found this recommendation requires further analysis. We have already conducted an analysis of the First Six Months of 2014 Workers Compensation injuries and compared those to 1213 and already taken that analysis and moved to make changes to our Training Program and to work with our facilities staff to take corrective action to move the department forward. In addition, we are going to reach out to the Workers Compensation staff to review our findings with them, and come up with some nextsteps that well continue to move our department forward. In the fourth recommendation this area, the department should communicate with Workers Compensation to review ongoing status of
Custody function and prior audits have focused solely on the custody function, we are a fullservice Law Enforcement agency and we provide penalopy of services that fall under the rubric. For example, we provide Public Security at a number of city departments, in addition, we have staff out in the field, who are looking for people who have outstanding warrants and a k9 unit that conducts bomb and drug sniffing activities. So we take a look at those functions and provide their insight in those areas as well. The civil grand jury focused findings focused on four areas and i will respond to each of those areas one at a time. The first one the first finding and recommendations related to disability. The first recommendation was that the Sheriffs Department should follow city policy for limited time temporary disability attainments and we found this requires further amion analysis. I think the challenge is that interdepartmental collaboration and interjurisdictional collaboration is really c
Jury. Good afternoon. Chairperson breed, supervisor tang, my name is michael skahill. I was a member of 20132014 civil grand jury for the city and county of San Francisco. Today im pleased to present the jurys report on the operation and programs of the San Francisco jails. This report is a product of cooperation and agreement. This report would not have been possible without the cooperation of people in the San Francisco Sheriffs Department, the five Charter Schools and Adult Education programs, the jailhouse Services Division of the department of Public Health as well as the staff of the San Francisco general hospital, and members of the San Francisco police department, as well as jail inmates. This report presented findings through discussion and through numerous site visits, many interviews and comprehensive literature review and evaluation of pages and pages of documentation. There is no requirement that a report be generated by the jury. However, the 20132014 civil grand jury has
The United States gives out longer sentences than any other place on the face of the earth. Europe looks at us like we dont know what were doing looks at us like were crazy. Open nine. In this special investigation, fault lines gains unprecedented and exclusive access to prisons across the United States and discovers a booming population of elderly inmates. We ask whats the true cost of americas lockemupandthrowawaythe key approach to justice . I heard him fall. Inmates call this the death house. The geriatric unit at the Joseph Harp Correctional Center in lexington, oklahoma, holds more than 250 elderly and disabled offenders. It was created 3 years ago in response to a massive explosion in oklahomas elderly prison population. Our Fastest Growing segment is the inmates that are the age of 50 and over. We have about 3,700 now thats grown almost 200 percent in the last decade and projections are were gonna continue to grow about 45 percent a year because of enhancements to punishments,