Posted on 03/31/2017 12:33:52 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday vowed to shutter Rikers Island and replace it with at least a few new facilities to lock up jailbirds elsewhere in the city.
New York City will close the Rikers Island jail facility, de Blasio said during a City Hall news conference.
It will take many years, it will take many tough decisions along the way. But it will happen.
But de Blasio stopped short of adopting the recommendations in a draft report from a blue-ribbon panel headed by former New York state Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.
That plan calls for building a new jail in each of the citys five boroughs at a total estimated cost of $10.6 billion.
Im working from a neutral position of saying I only know this: We will need a few more facilities, de Blasio said.
Theres no assumption on the number or location or how many.
De Blasio last year publicly rejected calls to close Rikers, calling it a noble concept but saying it would cost many billions of dollars and I have to look out for whats feasible, and I have to look out for the taxpayer.
A draft version of Lippmans report obtained by The Post recommends reducing the Rikers population now around 10,000 by about half and replacing the violence-plagued correction complex with five new jails spread across the city.
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Those Criminals that the Working Family Party will not make you hire, will now be housed in your neighborhood to kill you.
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 citys supervised release program and other measures.
Building a new jail in each of the citys 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.
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.
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.
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