Court delays are leaving people at Rikers longer than necessary, NYC comptroller finds
Court delays are causing people to languish at Rikers Island for longer than necessary, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars and jeopardizing the city's plan to replace its jails with more humane facilities, Comptroller Brad Lander's office
The report attributed the delays to pandemic restrictions, which slowed court processes, and recent state law changes that mandate a more expansive exchange of evidence among police, prosecutors and defense attorneys. New York City's jail population dipped to less than 4,000 in 2020 and is now at 6,351, according to aAlmost everyone held in city jails has been charged but not yet convicted of crimes. The current detainee population is still far below the 21,000 peak in 1990, yet it is too high to fully transition to the four new jails in Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx that are slated to replace all of Rikers’ jails in three years.
The cost to house an incarcerated person is now $507,000 a year, or more than double the $182,000 price tag in fiscal year 2013, according to the report.
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