Sentences with phrase «expanding jail facilities»
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.
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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.
Greene County is now in the position of having to expand jail capacity through construction of a new facility.
Councilman Corey Johnson, a Democrat from Manhattan, seized on the commissioner's comments, particularly in light of the department's ongoing plan to expand its jails on Rikers and their need for nearly $ 200 million in capital funds to upgrade the facilities.