Sentences with phrase «support new jails»

Elected officials in Queens said on Monday they would support a new jail near the courthouse in that borough.

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Question topics during a post-announcement Q&A included the surprise resignation of Joe Percoco, the extensive list released today of New York endorsers of Hillary Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's absence from that list, whether he supports de Blasio's call for changes to bail in light of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder, «felony drug dealers» being offered treatment instead of jail time, dealing with homeless people in the subway and rail systems, details of his executive order extending anti-discrimination laws to transgender people, Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch's departure and rules and laws around criminal defendant drug diversion programs.

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.

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.

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.

Siting of new jails would require support from local elected leaders and would be certain to face opposition.

But the location could be suitable for a new jail, said Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, a Queens Democrat who voiced support for the speaker's vision.

These are not the kinds of men who join the New York Health and Racquet Club, and outside, they have other problems — poverty, unemployment, child support, addiction, and parole requirements — that keep them from their old jail - yard hobby.

If you live in New York City you can support Milk Not Jails through these CSAs and buying clubs, or by asking your independent cafe to carry their line of dairy products.

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.

Upon my return home from the military, with very little income, a new start - up because I couldn't find employment, and awaiting my VA disability rating, I find myself facing potential jail time for inability to pay over $ 1,000 in monthly child support plus 100 % of all insurance and 50 % of all out of pocket expenses, and for allegedly removing my daughter from her high school based on a forged document that will cost thousands simply to prove «it wasn't me.»