Opponents Rip Borough-Based Jail System at Rikers Island Hearing | The Forum News Group

Opponents of the de Blasio administration’s vision of the future of the city’s criminal justice system recently gathered at a City Planning Commission public hearing to have their say put on the record.
Dozens of detractors descended on CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice last Wednesday morning to deliver remarks vehemently opposing the City’s proposed Borough-Based Jail System. 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 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.