A cash poor city should just build its new jails on Rikers Island

over 5 years in NY Post

Six months before COVID-19 devastated New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council approved a plan to spend nearly $9 billion to build four jails — one each in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens — and close Rikers Island. The city would better serve inmates and taxpayers by building new jails at...

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