Here's where things stand with the city's jails plan | Queens Daily Eagle

The community boards have voted and the borough presidents have weighed in. The city’s plan to close Rikers Island jails by 2026 — by building four new borough-based facilities via an unprecedented land use measure — has moved out of the advisory stage and into the legally binding phase as it approaches a fall vote by the City Council.

The plan calls for building a new 1,150-bed jail in every borough except Staten Island and likely depends on the support of the four councilmembers who represent the neighborhoods in question: Karen Koslowitz, who represents Kew Gardens in Queens; Stephen Levin, who represents Boerum Hill in Brooklyn; Margaret Chin, who represents Manhattan’s Chinatown; and Diana Ayala, who represents Mott Haven in the Bronx.

Initially, all four councilmembers were in favor of the plan when it was unveiled last year. Since then, two have hedged their support. Keep reading.