Sentences with phrase «locate city jails»
«She'll fight to ensure that New York City keeps Rikers Island open and will stand arm to arm with New Yorkers to block any efforts to locate city jails in our neighborhoods.»
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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's plan to close the jail complex is expected to take 10 years and puts the onus of picking where the smaller jails will be located on the City Council.
The report contains more than 70 recommendations for changes that the feds would like to see the de Blasio administration make, including mandating that the city house adolescent inmates in DOC jails not located on Rikers.
While the report does not specifically say where the jails would be placed, saying only that there should be one in each of the five boroughs, for a total capacity of 5,500 beds, «located in city centers near or adjacent to courthouses and in close proximity to public transportation,» DNAinfo reported previously that the commission had identified four sites by the time that a presentation on the plan was made to Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris in March.
The report did not specifically state where the new jails would be located, but DNAinfo previously reported the commission had identified four sites across the city.
She is the founder of large - scale art projects City As Site (2010), and The 96 Acres Project (2012 - Present), which examines the impact of incarceration through artistic interventions at the Cook County Jail located in her native community in Chicago.