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Podcast: New Thinking, a Center for Court Innovation Podcast
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Can We Close Rikers?
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:34:51
Publish Date: 2022-01-25 21:54:47
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New York City has committed to closing its notorious Rikers Island jail facility by 2027. That could dramatically reorient the city’s approach to incarceration. The plan envisions a citywide jail population of just over 3,000 people. But the population at Rikers has been growing for months, and Rikers itself is engulfed in crisis amidst a historic spike in deaths. What are the prospects for finally getting Rikers closed?

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