Mayor Bill de Blasio officially began the process of shuttering Rikers Island on Thursday by issuing a request for proposal to develop an action plan to close the controversial jail complex and find alternate solutions.
“We have a moral obligation to close down Rikers Island and transition to a smaller, safer and fairer jail system,” the mayor said. “To make that a reality, we’ll be looking at where we can create more off-island space by expanding existing buildings or finding new sites and maintaining an honest dialogue with communities and elected officials.
“We’re moving aggressively on the long road to closing Rikers Island, and this is a crucial step forward,” he added.
The consultant will work with the city’s goal to operate detention facilities that go beyond confinement by providing behavioral, health, developmental and re-entry support for inmates, as well as offer improved access for service providers, lawyers, visitation and transportation to court.
Proposals will be due in mid-December with the consultant chosen in early January, the mayor’s office said, adding that “there will be robust community consultation workshops and engagement with neighborhood residents.”
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This issue alone should have been enough to get this guy out of office. Enjoy the community jails, everyone.
Developers and the mayor are salivating. $Millions$$$$ in potential. And don't think that leaders and developers in LIC aren't behind this too.
"Consultants" - the 21st century's snake oil salesman.
"We have a moral obligation to close down Rikers Island and transition to a smaller, safer and fairer jail system,”
What bullshit! Jail has to be fair and safer now? It's punishment for being an asshole. It's JAIL fer crissakes!
The funny thing is that everyone thinks that this is about "jail reform". This is really about getting rid of rikers so developers can get their hands on all that land to build more nonsense on.
What this dripping piece of diseased mucus DeDumDum REALLY means is "My developer friends want Rikers Island to make a financial killing building condos on it, so the prisoners will have to be moved to your boroughs. Never mind the danger that imposes on your communities."
We are all f'ing assholes if we let this happen.
Just the beginning, folks.
Next they will go after the power plants, Hunts Market, and LaGuardia.
This will effect power, food supplies, and transit.
>What bullshit! Jail has to be fair and safer now? It's punishment for being an asshole. It's JAIL fer crissakes!
Jail is where they hold someone before a trial, before conviction. It's not a punishment, that's what prison is for.
This is about LGA expansion. Guaranteed.
"We are all f'ing assholes if we let this happen."
We re-elected Vallone, didn't we?
High rise luxury development soon to come to Rikers. Wadda we call it? That's the question.
This is why we have Rikers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58jLwiBYI20
Also (hell Gate Currents make Rikers suitably dangerous to escape) http://gothamist.com/attachments/nyc_chrisrobbins/22216Hellgatecurrents.jpg
Again http://gothamist.com/2016/02/22/hell_gate_history_nyc.php
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