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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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1 posted on 01/09/2016 11:08:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
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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.


2 posted on 01/09/2016 11:11:34 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: Olog-hai

Gitmo?


3 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)
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To: Olog-hai

Jail is an easy place to avoid.


4 posted on 01/09/2016 11:12:33 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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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?

5 posted on 01/09/2016 11:14:44 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Olog-hai

I smell #BLACKLIESMATTER.


6 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.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I fail to understand why these nitwits think that jail needs to be the equivalent of a 5 star hotel.


7 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)
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To: Ouderkirk

So they are comfy when they get there themselves.

Planning for their future.


8 posted on 01/09/2016 11:22:42 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Keep it open and save a cell for Obama.


9 posted on 01/09/2016 11:26:00 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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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.


10 posted on 01/09/2016 11:30:13 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: Olog-hai

an GITMO hold 10,000 prisoners ?


11 posted on 01/09/2016 11:33:28 AM PST by stylin19a
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I smell an enormous real estate deal in the making.


12 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!")
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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.
13 posted on 01/09/2016 11:36:34 AM PST by KarlInOhio (CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
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To: Olog-hai

Move them all to the UN building.

It’s already full of worthless criminals anyway.


14 posted on 01/09/2016 11:50:06 AM PST by digger48
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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.


15 posted on 01/09/2016 11:52:18 AM PST by PAR35
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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.
16 posted on 01/09/2016 11:57:09 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Alberta's Child

I had not even thought of that. You are absolutely correct. That is what it is all about.


17 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.)
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To: KarlInOhio

What of Fire Island?


18 posted on 01/09/2016 1:05:07 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Alberta's Child

That’s what I’m thinking, someone believes that island is too prime real estate for a jail complex.


19 posted on 01/09/2016 1:19:29 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Alberta's Child

Or another “wilderness preserve”.


20 posted on 01/09/2016 1:23:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
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