Sentences with phrase «new jail»

He knocked de Blasio for his plan to take ten years to build new jails in which to move inmates from Rikers Island.

Some City Council members say choosing sites for new jails is part of the mayor's job.

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

The mayor's spending plan also designates $ 1 billion in capital funding to design new jail facilities, in keeping with the mayor's recent commitment to shut down the Rikers Island jail complex and replace it with jails elsewhere in the city.

The pair's three - point plan seeks to expedite the 10 - year timeline for closure pledged by the Mayor by implementing aggressive prison population reductions through the siting of new jails citywide and reforming city detention and incarceration practices.

He refused to say, for example, where any new facilities would be located, or to rule out building new jails on Rikers Island in the interim.

Additionally, local and federal government agencies are now guaranteeing minimum levels of occupancy in new jail contracts (private prisons are paid per inmate), which sets a minimum amount of profitability from quarter to quarter and year to year.

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.

Mayor de Blasio called on the City Council Friday to reject recommendations by its own blue - ribbon panel to open new jails in all five boroughs as part of a plan...

As part of the plan, the city would have to find locations for and construct new jails to relocate prisoners.

This matches the Velvet Room's new jail cell aesthetic.

Mayor de Blasio will have his work cut out for him in replacing Rikers Island with new jails in every borough, officials said Saturday.

And even if it were up to the Council, members in four boroughs have already made the commitments the mayor says he is waiting on — in four boroughs, members representing neighborhoods near courthouses have already said publicly they would support new jails in their districts.

De Blasio unveiled his long - awaited proposal to close Rikers last month, which involves moving inmates to new jails across the four boroughs.

Last November, he introduced the incentives and earned privileges scheme, a tough new jail regime designed to provide a «right - wing solution» to reoffending.

Replacing Rikers Island with new jails scattered throughout NYC is going to be an uphill battle for de Blasio.

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.

Closing Rikers, the city's violence - plagued jail complex, which will require political will to surmount NIMBY opposition and decisions on where in the boroughs to put new jails.

«This report illustrates how the government is putting children at risk with its plan to build a huge new jail that will mix younger boys, and girls, with older teenagers with too few staff.

Ms. Carpenter says she was not a policy maker when this happened, and that the bulk of the debt was for a state - mandated new jail in Yaphank.

Mr. de Blasio said he would work with the City Council to determine possible sites for new jails, and then move on to the arduous task of designing them and getting them approved through the city's lengthy land - use process.

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.

So let's assume that, because the province has chosen to not build new jails, so many felons are sent to a jail that the conditions some how can be said to amount to a breach of some Charter right.

The budget also includes design / build authority — which will speed up construction while reducing costs — legislation for the construction of new jails to supplant the Rikers Island detention complex and the reconstruction of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

The current borough - based facilities can only house 2,300 detainees, so the city has started the process to site and construct new jails.

The plan, which the mayor largely supports, calls for cutting the current daily jail population of 10,000 in half and moving the remaining inmates to new jails across the city.

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.

dude, we built a new jail, and a quarter of the people in there are homeless, have crossed eyes or have a birth defect.

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

Also at 1 p.m., Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and others rally in opposition of a proposed site of a new jail in the South Bronx, Bronx Tow Yard, corner of East 141st Street and Concord Avenue, Bronx.

Hoping to accelerate the closing of the Rikers Island jail complex, NYC officials announced that they have now chosen sites for four new jails, one in each borough except Staten Island.

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.

«I was surprised to learn that the administration has already selected a site for a new jail in the Bronx,» Diaz said.

«However, any new site for a jail in this borough must be thoroughly vetted, and the people of the Bronx must have a meaningful say in the selection of any future site, be it the one that has been proposed in Mott Haven or other appropriate sites that could host a new jail,» he said.

Serious injuries to correction officers from inmate violence spiked 68 percent in the first six months after a new jails commissioner took command, city figures show.

The mayor even revealed that the city had yet to scope out any particular locations for new jails, nor had even decided how many such new sites it would need.

«The decisions going forward have to be made by the mayor and the City Council, whoever those people are,» he continued, noting each new jail facility would trigger the city's complicated Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, which ultimately requires a vote of the full Council.

It was a perfect fit for the New York audience behind bars - about 20 military veterans living in a new jail unit where even the correction officers are veterans.

«We're not going to spend one dime on new jails,» Gangi said, adding that he also would not approve the funding de Blasio has allocated for a new police academy or the controversial Brooklyn - Queens streetcar project.

Total engineering costs for the new jail are estimated at over $ 3 million dollars.

It further complicates the need for a new jail in Cortland County.

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.

«It's unfortunate because I believe that that's critical to closing Rikers,» Mark - Viverito said of the plan not including information about new jails.