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Close it? Campaign seeks to shutter NYC's Rikers Island jail
Associated Press ^
| Jan 9, 2016 12:02 PM EST
| Jake Pearson
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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: justleadershipusa; liberalagenda; nyc; rikersisland
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:08:50 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Let them out. I see no downside. Or difference. It’s a war zone anyway. The sooner NY is walled off the better.
Normie - Born and raised there.
And thankful to God I left 20 years ago.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:11:34 AM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:11:36 AM PST
by
Insigne123
(It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
To: Olog-hai
Jail is an easy place to avoid.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:12:33 AM PST
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: Olog-hai
is too broken to be fixed, plagued by a culture of brutality, misconduct and corruption. Why should it be different from the rest of the city?
To: Olog-hai
I smell #BLACKLIESMATTER.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:18:27 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam.)
To: Norm Lenhart
I fail to understand why these nitwits think that jail needs to be the equivalent of a 5 star hotel.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:20:55 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
To: Ouderkirk
So they are comfy when they get there themselves.
Planning for their future.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:22:42 AM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
To: Norm Lenhart
Keep it open and save a cell for Obama.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:26:00 AM PST
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
To: Mouton
I think “Escape from NY” had the best solution. If someone in that rathole is in need of extraction later, we can deal with it as required.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:30:13 AM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
To: Olog-hai
an GITMO hold 10,000 prisoners ?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I smell an enormous real estate deal in the making.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:35:52 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
To: Olog-hai
They need a larger island because Rikers is at risk of capsizing. Just turn all of Long Island into a prison. The Hamptons can become the minimum security section.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:36:34 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
To: Olog-hai
Move them all to the UN building.
It’s already full of worthless criminals anyway.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:50:06 AM PST
by
digger48
To: Olog-hai
Don’t know how it works in NY, but in Dallas, if you dug deep enough, you’d find a developer who has his eyes on the property.
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posted on
01/09/2016 11:52:18 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: Olog-hai
Great idea.Relocate it to Central Park West...take The Dakota by Eminent Domain.Yoko,and others will want to thank Justice Soutter.
To: Alberta's Child
I had not even thought of that. You are absolutely correct. That is what it is all about.
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posted on
01/09/2016 12:05:37 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam.)
To: KarlInOhio
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posted on
01/09/2016 1:05:07 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Alberta's Child
That’s what I’m thinking, someone believes that island is too prime real estate for a jail complex.
To: Alberta's Child
Or another “wilderness preserve”.
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posted on
01/09/2016 1:23:26 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
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