Posted on 01/09/2016 11:08:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
Inside and outside of New York City's government, chatter is increasing about a once-unthinkable idea: shutting down the notorious Rikers Island jail complex.
A coalition of dozens of advocacy groups says it intends to pressure the mayor and other elected officials to take a stand, arguing the 400-acre island in the East River where most of the city's 10,000 inmates are held is too broken to be fixed, plagued by a culture of brutality, misconduct and corruption.
They are up against a formidable opposition that derides the effort as a fantasy that ignores political and practical realities. ...
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“is too broken to be fixed,”
When they turned a portion of the base where I was stationed, into a minimum security prison, it was the prisoners themselves that made the improvements to the housing facilities.
Close it and build a casino
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