Mr. Medlock said what is needed is a wholesale change in local law enforcement's approach to inmate care.
Commissioner Schriro has also proposed eliminating some support jobs or allowing nonuniformed personnel to fill them, as well as reassigning 537 officers to inmate areas, Mr. Morello said.
"We used to lose 30 people a year when I started, and last year maybe we had 12," he added, referring to inmate deaths.
The short haircut is humiliating punishment, meted out to inmate Eleanor Parker in Caged, or to Monica Bellucci, condemned for being the village slut, in Malèna.
While New York has reduced inmate suicide in the last two decades with suicide-proof construction and better monitoring, isolated confinement units undoubtedly lead to inmate deaths.
A Department of Correction "injury to inmate" report says that Browder was "involved in a use of force" with "D.O.C. staff" that day, and that he suffered a facial contusion.
The governor and the Legislature received a report on March 15 from a state oversight board warning that cuts to inmate rehabilitation programs would jeopardize the effort to reduce recidivism.
One of those Mr. Titov championed was Ruslan V. Tyelkov, whose short arc from businessman to inmate illustrates both the entrepreneurial spirit that still simmers in Russia and the risks.
The relative inexperience of these guards is not just detrimental to inmate safety, it has consequences for the entire jail staff, many of whom feel they have no choice but to turn a blind eye to abuses.
At the end of yesterday's hearing, City Councilwoman Yvette D. Clarke, the chairwoman of the Council's Fire and Criminal Justice Services committee, said she was pleasantly surprised at the commitment the city had to inmate discharge planning.
Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the southern district of New York, which includes Manhattan, said: "Abu Hamza's blood-soaked journey from cleric to convict, from Imam to inmate, is now complete".
