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Rescuing Rikers

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Is Rikers Island Shrouded?

The city council seems full steam ahead on this as they were in 2019. 2027, ostensibly the facilities on Rikers Island will be shuttered. The city will shift all of its joke capacity to for Burmese jails,. maximum average jail population, 3,300 people built in the boroughs under construction now. If we're going to displace upwards of 3,000 or so people that are better served because of their violence in a correctional setting, I think that's a very dangerous situation," he said.

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