Most Rikers detainees face felony charges; Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards says new jail by 2029.
The Mamdani administration plans to reduce Rikers Island inmate populations by expanding supervised release, alternatives to incarceration and early release.Mayor Zohran Mamdani ’s push to mindlessly free perps held at Rikers is a carbon copy of the de Blasio-era drive that immediately sent crime rates soaring; New Yorkers have zero reason to expect a different result.
in the name of making the “replace Rikers” plan more feasible, which is ridiculous since his own Correction commissioner, Stanley Richards, just told the City Council, “The first borough-based jail facility is not expected to reach substantial completion until 2029.” And the folks who’d get sprung are not the low-level offenders that the “criminal-justice reform” crew always pretends.And the no-bail law doesn’t allow the jailing of those facing “non-violent” charges except for aggravating circumstances, such as reoffending while on probation or parole, harming someone while released pending trial on other charges, etc.Beware crank-right ‘Podturf,’ incredible shrinking CPAC and other commentary Mamdani is looking to repeat the idiocy of 2019-’20, when state “reforms” let 2,000 perps out of Rikers prematurely, then Mayor Bill de Blasio released another 2,000 in the name of reducing COVID spread . The “reform” crowd also already ensured that those held at Rikers are the “worst of the worse” — individuals so dangerous and malevolent that even the city’s “cut ’em loose” judges see the need to jail them. Yet Mamdani has made Richards the first ex-offender to head the city’s jail system; he says he’s working to “responsibly” reduce the number of people in custody by expanding supervised release, work release and alternatives to incarceration: Watch out. They’d do far better working to improve conditions at Rikers: Someone should, since federal Judge Laura Swain, who’s supposed to enforce the decrees “mandating” improvement, just gave her handpicked “remediation manager” Why, in the decade-plus since the federal consent decree began, haven’t the “reformers” made compliance their priority? It makes you wonder if they’re truly concerned about suffering inside the city’s jails, or just mindlessly determined to get dangerous recidivists back on the streets because crime and chaos is what their vision of “justice” is really all about.Hundreds of protesters swarm proposed NYC men's homeless shelter site, physically block construction truck'Burn Notice' star ditched Los Angeles for Colorado after meeting his wife and says he's 'never leaving' Stream It Or Skip It: 'Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole' On Netflix, Where A Troubled Detective Tracks Down A Serial Killer Who Is Terrorizing Oslo
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