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City Limits contacted all 51 members of the City Council, the five borough presidents and the three citywide officials to ask whether they support closing Rikers.
The jury is still out on whether reforms – segregating the most violent inmates, a crackdown on smuggling, faster use-of-force investigations – will be effective.
But CB11’s conditional rejection of the two sets of proposed changes did not satisfy some advocates who wanted a more absolute rejection.
