Sentence examples for precinct cell from inspiring English sources

Two weeks after two Newark police officers were acquitted on charges of beating and allowing others to beat a man accused of molesting a child, a judge here has agreed to drop lesser charges against four other officers named in the 1999 incident in a precinct cell block.

The lead plaintiff in the suit, Sharif Stinson, says he was walking out of his aunt's apartment building in Upper Manhattan on Dec. 31, 2009, when several officers stopped and searched him without cause, then held him in a precinct cell for four hours.

After he was arrested last February, Mr. Long's complaint said, an officer placed him in a precinct holding cell and then pepper-sprayed him, injuring his eyes.

"He was doing it because he lost his job and I was sick," she told reporters as she was escorted from police headquarters to a precinct holding cell.

But these men will feel the slap of handcuffs and stand in stinking precinct holding cells, even as their white peers smoke more but rarely get arrested.

An hour or so later, another officer, David Torren, took Mr. Dixon into the precinct's holding cells and followed his partner's moves, taking away Mr. Dixon's shoelaces and belt.

They then put us both into handcuffs and threw us into a holding cell in the precinct.

You see him shackled, taken in a van from his cell at the precinct to the courthouse, led up to a pair of officers searching him and the other inmates.

But the state's prison population has grown by 41,000 in the same time; increasingly, prisoners are relegated to lockups in police precincts, sometimes 20 to a cell.

(He spent one night in a police precinct, and another in a group cell before being transferred to Rikers Island).

Mr. Fullerton said that about 7 a.m. on Saturday, he was taken to a communal holding cell at the 73rd Precinct station house.