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A city rendering of how the new jail in Queens might look.
The number of outstanding questions reflects the size of the population involved, the magnitude of the construction projects the effort entails and the unique nature of building temporary housing for people who live there involuntarily.
‘Rikers Island has been a human rights atrocity since the 1930s, and we are closer than ever to closing it.’
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