Jarrett Murphy
Transporting detainees to and from court from Rikers costs the city tens of millions of dollars each year.
‘Our new mayor should know solitary confinement does not curtail violence in jails, decarceration does. The people of New York deserve so much better than a limited imagination of this former cop who knows people will die from this policy.’
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