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The humanitarian crisis at Rikers Island

Today, Explained

New York City Planning Commission Vote to Close Rikers Island Jail Complex

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The city planning commission of new voting overwhelmingly to open four replacement jails for the rikers island jail complex. That vision involved reducing the number of people locked up at any given time an in new york city jails. But it met resistance from a newly ascendant abolitionist movement that said jails are bad for people, and they don't actually solve the problemt they report to solve.

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