Sentences with phrase «building new jails»

I would like to see our money spent on other issues, such as catching online predators that prey on the weak and children, building new Jails to support the ever demanding prison population increases, more money to our police forces accross the nation, education, healthcare, infostructure, issues like that, which are important, not on this copyright law which isnt an important issue and never really has been.

That leads to the second major challenge: building new jails in city neighborhoods where resistance is likely to be fierce.

The capital plan also includes $ 1.1 billion for designing and building new jails in 2018 as de Blasio's begins a 10 - year effort to close Rikers Island, though the funding was already in the plan and has been reallocated.

Slamming the mayor's recent, sudden support of closing the jail on Rikers Island as «opportunistic,» Gangi noted de Blasio wants to spend money building new jails.

He also criticized the mayor's Rikers Island jails closure plan, and the plan to build new jails in the boroughs, as insufficient; on his website, Gangi proposes closing Rikers within one year of the start of his administration.

These and other issues need to be weighed against the alternative of building a new jail facility in Greene County, which would require a bond of approximately $ 45 million.

Brooklyn won't need to build a new jail when Rikers Island closes — they already have one, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said Sunday.

Even before the week began, Mr. de Blasio sought to dampen a potential outcry over his plan to eventually close the Rikers Island prison complex by assuring Staten Islanders that he would not build a new jail there, as recommended by an independent City Council commission.

A new battle could be brewing after City Council members responded strongly to DNAinfo New York's exclusive report Thursday that City Hall has identified possible locations on Staten Island and in College Point, among other neighborhoods, to build new jails in an effort to close Rikers Island.

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He said that new forms could include specific real estate projects (such as jails, universities and hospitals buildings) or investment strategies tied to specific themes (such as insurance risks, population growth or climate change).

Every week, a new jail or prison is built even though we already have the world's largest.

The city wants to build an entirely new jail on the site of the NYPD's Bronx tow pound in Mott Haven, reopen the shuttered Queens Detention Center in Kew Gardens and expand still - operating Manhattan and Brooklyn detention centers.

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Over the weekend, Governor Cuomo suggested Wards Island as a possible replacement for Rikers, saying the city should consider building at least three new jails.

The reasons, says a panel report to be issued Thursday, include a faster - than - expected process for choosing locations in the boroughs to put replacement lockups, a shrinking inmate headcount and new authority that Albany granted days ago to cut red tape in jail design and building.

Greene County is planning to build a new county jail.

Mayor de Blasio's plan for closing Rikers Island says little about where new jails should be built — a decision he shrugged off on the City Council Thursday.

«We should close down Rikers and build a new state of the art jail that is just safer for the guards and for the inmates,» Mr. Cuomo said on NY1 this morning.

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.

De Blasio's plan for closing Rikers Island says little about where new jails should be built — a decision he shrugged off on the City Council.

New York City has hired the architecture - and - design firm Perkins Eastman to study where and how to build jails that would eventually replace those on Rikers Island, which officials are working to shut down in the next decade.

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.

GEO received a $ 110 million contract to build a new immigration jail in Texas, plus $ 44 million a year to operate it.

From the beginning of his time in office, he has openly expressed his concern for the men and women that work at the Dutchess County Jail and has made building a new modern and safe facility one of his top priorities,» said President Timothy DeGelormo.

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.

The report says the new jails «would vary in size, based on the expected population in each borough,» and would be built as close as possible to courthouses.

The new, borough - based jail system, which the commission argues would cut down on transportation and staffing costs while helping to better integrate the justice system back into the community, would cost $ 11.4 billion to build but could save the city $ 1.4 billion annually, according to the report.

But Molinaro believes the county can not solve its jail overcrowding problem without building new county jail space.

Although most of us won't have the need to learn how to create a high effective workout only by using the worn out, limited equipment in a jail yard, or in the tiny space of a prison cell, we could all benefit from the fitness wisdom of prisoners all over the world, who are constantly inventing new creative ways to build muscle and strength with the minimum resources possible.

Also, the original jail was too close for comfort at the time, so Flagler asked that the new jail be built at a further location.

The new courthouse was built with a three - quarter - of - a-cent sales tax increase that also upgraded the jail and renovated the fairgrounds.

If sentences are lengthened, new prisons and jails will need to be built to accommodate offenders who would be incarcerated under sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum sentences.

In Seattle he's an outspoken opponent of the city's proposal to build a new juvenile jail.»

Earlier this week, University of Ottawa criminology professor Justin Piché published an article in the Ottawa Citizen arguing that the Government of Ontario should not build a new larger jail to replace the Ottawa - Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC).

With his lawyers recently jumping ship after Dotcom ran out of money, the extradition case has been pushed back to June as he strives to build a new defence team, though he has a bail hearing coming up on Thursday that will determine whether he will have to go to jail pending the outcome of the main hearing later this year.