There will be questions about this topic during the mayoral race. The bigger questions will be answered down the line.
August 11, 2017 https://citylimits.org/2017/08/11/election-2017-policy-brief-closing-rikers/The biggest reason for the doubts about de Blasio’s devotion to closing Rikers is that doing so will require tough decisions in a policy area where this mayor faces unusually high expectations and especially acute risks.
July 5, 2017 https://citylimits.org/2017/07/05/de-blasio-and-the-difficult-task-of-closing-rikers-island/A point of contention among the candidates is how much the DA’s office is currently doing to limit the use of bail in cases involving alleged misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies.
June 22, 2017 https://citylimits.org/2017/06/22/brooklyn-da-hopefuls-stake-out-positions-on-bail-reform-key-to-closing-rikers/Amidst the splash created by Mayor de Blasio’s pledge to close Rikers, it’s somewhat surprising that there hasn’t been more attention to the future of broken-windows policing.
April 10, 2017 https://citylimits.org/2017/04/10/cityviews-lots-of-talk-about-closing-rikers-not-enough-about-shutting-broken-windows/The city will sweat the details for a long time. But let’s give de Blasio his due for putting his stamp on history.
April 1, 2017 https://citylimits.org/2017/04/01/closing-rikers-goes-from-pipe-dream-to-policy/A veteran DOC officer writes: ‘We simply must develop the will to expend the money for services and staff, rather than on restraint chairs and solitary cells.’
March 22, 2017 https://citylimits.org/2017/03/22/no-backspace-shackling-inmates-will-only-make-rikers-violence-worse/A reform advocate, a former inmate and the head of the correction officers union discussed where the reforms of Rikers stand, whether they go far enough and what’s driving the surge in violence.
October 13, 2016 https://citylimits.org/2016/10/13/video-violence-in-the-city-jails-and-the-push-to-close-rikers/A former corrections captain maps out a planning process that to create the community detention facilities New York needs.
June 28, 2016 https://citylimits.org/2016/06/28/open-letter-to-the-mayor-nimby-neednt-block-plans-to-replace-rikers-with-jails-that-work/In multiple ways, the workers took on the company along the contested front between the new and old economy, and won.
June 9, 2016 https://citylimits.org/2016/06/09/no-backspace-can-you-hear-us-now-how-verizon-strikers-came-through-loud-and-clear/Nearly a year ago, the city’s Board of Correction voted to enact revised guidelines to address high rates of sexual abuse in the city’s correctional facilities. The final rule has encountered a chain a delays.
May 17, 2016 https://citylimits.org/2016/05/17/still-waiting-for-rules-to-prevent-rape-on-rikers/
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