Sentences with phrase «island jail house»

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Dietl and Malliotakis said they would reject a plan, endorsed by the mayor, to close the Rikers Island jail, criticized de Blasio's stewardship of the schools, his administration's efforts to build more below - market - rate housing, and budgeting.

Rikers Island will close a jail housing 600 by the summer, Department of Correction Commissioner Cynthia Brann announced on Jan. 2, 2018.

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 jail with the most claims filed in 2015 was the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island, which houses a mental health unit and a methadone clinic.

MANHATTAN — Violence at Rikers Island is on the rise even as the number of people housed at the troubled jail has declined and spending per inmate has increased dramatically, according to a report released Friday by Comptroller Scott Stringer.

And Mr. de Blasio said he would spend $ 170 million to build a new correctional center for adolescents, which would allow the city to remove the roughly 180 adolescents housed on Rikers Island from the troubled jail complex.

De Blasio, who has said his administration continues to put plans in place to decrease the population in Rikers Island and install several reforms at the jail, said the speaker's plan, first laid out during her State of the City address last week, lacked detail and reasonable options for housing the approximately 10,000 inmates currently detained at the troubled jail.

And he proceeded to blast the conditions at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the plan to close the Rikers Island jail complex in 10 years as too long of a timeline — both clear jabs at de Blasio — and said he would like to see an end to cash bail.

Those plans include charging Suffolk County up to $ 3 million a year to house as many as 100 of its inmates at a time in the Nassau jail in East Meadow, a surcharge on traffic tickets issued on the Long Island Expressway to raise $ 5 million and an increase in ambulance fees, charged to patients, to bring in $ 5 million.

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.

Mr. de Blasio said the jails could be closed in 10 years, providing the city could reduce the number of people who cycle through the city's system to 5,000; low enough, that is, for every inmate to be taken off the 400 - acre island and housed instead in jails elsewhere in the city.

In recent weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio's policies have run up against an age - old forces of inertia and resistance in the city, especially one that springs forth in policy debates on everything from housing to bike lanes to school desegregation and even closing down Rikers Island jails.

But considering that Grimm (R - Staten Island / Brooklyn) may go to jail, and if he doesn't, may be pressured by House Republicans to resign, Antoniello said the party is considering the option that there will be a special election to fill his seat.

David Anthony Fullard, an assistant professor at the State University of New York and former captain on Rikers Island, said the new jails should house no more than 500 inmates, ideally with a ratio of roughly one guard per eight inmates, about half the current ratio at Rikers.

There are roughly 10,000 inmates in the city's jail system, a vast majority of whom are housed on Rikers Island.

On the trip of a lifetime, you could be taking a ride in a traditional cable car up the hilly streets of the city, admiring the incredibly spectacular Victorian and Edwardian houses known as the Painted Ladies or taking a boat ride to Alcatraz Island, the old jail is famous for its inmates and people trying to escape, not least Al Capone.