New York City to close Rikers Island

http://nypost.com ^ | 03/31/2017 | By Yoav Gonen, Rich Calder, Rebecca Rosenberg and Bruce Golding

[rmlew]

Those Criminals that the Working Family Party will not make you hire, will now be housed in your neighborhood to kill you.

[SkyPilot]

The report reads like something DeBlasio and his Marxist lesbian (no really, she is a lesbia) wife cooked up. Putting the criminals back on the streets. What can go wrong?

I bet this had something to do with the decison.

"According to some reports, 95 percent of the youth in New York City jails are black or Latino."

The 146-page report suggests:

• Putting half of Rikers inmates back on the streets through bail reforms, an expansion of the city’s “supervised release” program and other measures.

•Building a new jail in each of the city’s five boroughs at an estimated cost of $10.6 billion. Existing facilities in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx would be replaced with new jails built on city-owned land in Queens and Staten Island.

•Slashing the number of city correction officers by almost two thirds, from 10,500 to 3,700. The number of civilian employees would remain stable “to promote positive, pro-social programming for those incarcerated.”

•Potentially redeveloping Rikers with a third runway for La Guardia Airport, an “energy-from-waste facility,” a sewage-treatment plant and a “large-scale solar energy installation.”

[firebrand]

Welcome back to the 1990s NYC. New jails in all the boroughs, 90 new homeless shelters scattered around the city, film crews making noises like firecrackers on a West Side street from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. next week . . . At least Bloomberg hated noise, his only redeeming feature besides nice plantings.

Don’t worry. They have all the required permits from the Mayor’s Office on Film. Oh and here’s the phone number if your car gets towed. We didn’t think the Citi bike rack was making it difficult enough to park your car.

[firebrand]

Forgot to mention: Today a notice appeared on the blue mailbox on my corner: To avoid mailbox fishing, mail your stuff at the post office, especially if it’s a check.