City Planning Commission Set to Hold Public Hearing on Borough-Based Jails Proposal | The Forum

The City Planning Commission was to have held its public hearing on the New York City Borough-Based Jail System proposal on Wednesday, July 10, at 10 a.m. at CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Led by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and Department of Correction, the proposal is to implement a borough-based jail system and close the facilities on Rikers Island. The proposed project would develop four new detention facilities to house individuals who are in the City’s correctional custody with one located in each of these four boroughs: Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. Keep reading.