Sentences with phrase «new jails across»
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.
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De Blasio unveiled his long - awaited proposal to close Rikers last month, which involves moving inmates to new jails across the four boroughs.
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«You're putting that jail in the south Bronx across that bridge right here or you're putting it down the street on 125th Street somewhere or you're putting it in Bedford Stuyvesant or you're putting it in Red Hook,» said Norman Seabrook, president of the New York City Correction Officer's Benevolent Association.
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.
Rikers Island, in the East River across from La Guardia Airport, serves as the principal jail complex for New York City.
The study is in keeping with DNAinfo New York's reporting from last year, which detailed the plans to close Rikers Island's jail facilities and enumerated a plan to replace it with smaller jails across the city, which the mayor rejected as «untrue» at the time.