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Mayor Bill de Blasio at the 2014 DOC graduation

Rob Bennett for the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio

Mayor de Blasio attends the 2014 graduation ceremony for new correction officers.

Jarrod Shanahan

Jarrod Shanahan is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University and has written extensively on the history of Rikers Island.

Mayor Bill de Blasio at the 2014 DOC graduation
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: NYC Can’t Jail Its Way Out of a Public Health Crisis

By Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot and Jarrod Shanahan | April 28, 2020

‘Mayor de Blasio’s new budget, which prioritizes our city’s paramilitary police and corrections department over much-needed public services, indicates the city believes otherwise.’

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Rikers Island

Opinion: Let Them Out Now

By Jarrod Shanahan | March 24, 2020

‘A mass release in the name of public health could signal a watershed in shifting priorities from law and order policies that fail distressed communities.’

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