NYC DOC, Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Top and bottom, the city's renderings of what new jails in Brooklyn and Queens will look like. In the middle: the mayor at Rikers.
‘Nothing sends a bigger signal that the city is cravenly committed to a system of mass incarceration than the construction of giant new jails in the city’s thriving neighborhoods.’
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