detention awaiting trial

The defendants have now been in detention awaiting trial for 20 months.

At year's end the four were in detention awaiting trial, and the defamation claim had not been settled.

While in detention awaiting trial, Johnson wrote a letter that stated: "Hi.

Half of those currently indicted for war crimes in Bosnia are now in detention awaiting trials.

The number of city jail inmates - 70 percent of whom are in detention awaiting trial - has risen dramatically since 1980.

At a dormitory in Rikers Island's North Facility, more than 80 people are kept in detention awaiting trial.

"This sentence can devastate my health but not my spirits," she said in a defiant statement to the court, noting that her body was ailing after the year in detention awaiting trial.

According to prosecutors, Mr. Burnett hatched the $100,000 murder plan to kill the bank teller while imprisoned at the Brooklyn House of Detention awaiting trial in the bank fraud case.

The man who escaped, Jamel Hightower, 24, who until his transfer to the hospital was being held at the Bronx House of Detention awaiting trial on charges of attempted murder and robbery, was still at large last night.

Daniel Brodsky, who called his client's two-year detention awaiting trial "shocking," asserted that Rosato "spent more time in custody on a harassment charge" than anyone ever convicted of the offence in Canada, estimating that "on average, someone convicted of criminal harassment spends one day in jail and two years on probation."