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NY: City Moves to Reopen a Brooklyn Jail Shuttered in 2003, but Drops Plans to Expand It

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

City Moves to Reopen a Brooklyn Jail Shuttered in 2003, but Drops Plans to Expand It By JOHN ELIGON NY Times: Published: August 11, 2010 Despite neighborhood unease, the city is moving forward with plans to fully reopen a jail in downtown Brooklyn, but has dropped plans to double its size, the city?s corrections commissioner said Wednesday. The move is part of a reconfiguration of the city?s jail system, which also includes the demolition of rundown buildings at Rikers Island, the construction of a new but smaller building there and the reopening of a jail near the courthouse in Kew Gardens, Queens. With the changes, expected to be completed by 2017, the Department of Correction should be able to house 16,500 inmates, Commissioner Dora B. Schriro said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 14, 2010 (boomark / email).