Sentences with phrase «island jail facility»

A movement to close New York's Rikers Island jail facility is gaining momentum.

The news comes as de Blasio is backing a 10 - year plan to close the Rikers Island jail facility, where 38 percent of the inmates are estimated to have mental issues.

«New York City will close the Rikers Island jail facility.

On a visit to the troubled Rikers Island jail facilities a few years ago, Councilmember Daniel Dromm was taken aback by an unannounced companion accompanying a group that included council members and the corrections commissioner.

Not exact matches

The concerns over a Hunt's Point jail facility come as city officials discuss alternatives should Rikers Island be phased out.

One alternative is to have multiple jail facilities throughout the city at different points, with sites in Brooklyn and Queens, on Staten Island as well as Hunt's Point under discussion.

In addition to Rikers Island, the report listed other «worst offender» facilities, including the Greene County Jail in Catskill, the Buffalo area's Erie County Holding Center and Correctional Facility, the Dutchess County Jail in Poughkeepsie, and the Syracuse area's Onondaga County Justice Center and Penitentiary.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson have announced an agreement to replace Rikers Island with a series of community - based jail facilities located near borough courthouses.

De Blasio is suing to block a Cuomo administration order that would force the closure of a jail facility on Rikers Island that houses nearly 400 inmates — including 100 teenagers.

The agency said it has tried to help jail management fix the issues, but the ongoing problems highlight «the need for closure of all jail facilities located on Rikers Island.»

At 2 p.m., NYC Council members, inmate advocates and former guards and inmates from the city's Rikers Island Correctional Facility discuss proposals for overhauling treatment of inmates at the jail; Urban Justice Center, 16th floor, 123 William St., Manhattan.

For Ms. Mark - Viverito, passing the legislation would provide a capstone to her reform record that includes new laws to create civil penalties for certain infractions, like public urination, and pushing for the closure of the Rikers Island jail complex, a stance that helped pressure Mr. de Blasio to agree to close the facility over the next decade.

He spoke of rebuilding the facilities on Rikers Island, declaring that the current operations are a failure, but not endorsing the new de Blasio view of closing the Rikers Island jails and moving those operations to new and expanded jails around the City.

Massey said that he's read the Lippman Report and talked with experts, leading him to support «ending the facility that we now call Rikers» but building new facilities on Rikers Island rather than replacing the current Rikers jails with jails spread around the City.

Calling the idea offered by the speaker during her State of the City speech last week «interesting and intriguing,» Cuomo said the island jail was a dated facility, and that the smaller, more technically advanced jails that can be built today would be «more appropriate.»

In addition to Rikers Island, which is run by New York City, the report listed the other «worst offenders» as the Greene County Jail in Catskill, the Buffalo area's Erie County Holding Center and Correctional Facility, the Dutchess County Jail in Poughkeepsie, and the Syracuse area's Onondaga County Justice Center and Penitentiary.

Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted today that the responsibility for siting the new, diffused network of holding facilities intended to replace Rikers Island over the next decade will fall not on him, but on the City Council — and called for bold members of the body to take the political gamble of recommending the city put a jail on their own home turf.

«The grant went to the purchase of two vehicles which the staff needs to respond to jail facilities on the Island and to travel to and from Bronx courts, as well as for computer and other office equipment.

Johnson also discussed his February 14 agreement with Mayor Bill de Blasio to replace Rikers Island with a series of community - based jail facilities located near borough courthouses.

The number of personal injury claims filed against New York City for episodes at the Rikers Island jail complex and other city correctional facilities surged last year in what the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, called a troubling indication of a continuing plague of violence and mismanagement.

City officials on Tuesday said they're taking the first step to shuttering Rikers Island by closing a facility that houses 600 men at the jail site this summer.

The new, smaller facilities, would be built on the footprints of existing, outdated jails in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn, and would be built anew on city - owned land in The Bronx and Staten Island, according to the plan.

All are expected to soon be signed into law by Mayor Bill de Blasio, with the package part of ongoing reforms aimed at changing the culture at Rikers Island and other jail facilities run by the city.

When Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced last week that they'd reached a deal to speed up the closure of Rikers Island by creating or expanding jail facilities in every borough except Staten Island, it seemed to be a clear sign of a productive partnership between the administration and local elected officials.

We are recommending, without hesitation or equivocation, permanently ending the use of Rikers Island as a jail facility in any form or function,» reads the 146 - page report.

The study is in keeping with DNAinfo New York's reporting from last year, which detailed the plans to close Rikers Island's jail facilities and enumerated a plan to replace it with smaller jails across the city, which the mayor rejected as «untrue» at the time.

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Besides Rikers Island, the city has jails in Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, as well as on a floating barge in the East River, but those facilities total only about 2,400 beds.

The March 9 presentation, which is available to view below, shows that the City Hall study was initially examining a few options, including just renovating existing facilities at Rikers or a partial closure of the island's jail coupled with the expansion of borough - based detention centers.