As part of its plan to close Rikers Island, the city wants to build a new smaller jail on the site of a tow pound in Mott Haven.
The division between people who support the de Blasio administration plan to site a new jail in the Bronx to facilitate the closing of Rikers and those who don’t is about a lot more than the location.
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