We Are Owed Much More Than A Concept': Hearing On NYC's New Jails Plan Draws Protests | Gothamist

The de Blasio administration’s $9 billion plan to shut down Rikers Island, the city’s main jail complex, and replace it with four borough-based jails drew angry protests and jeers during a more than six-hour-long public hearing on Wednesday before the Planning Commission.

The new jails have faced mounting pushback from communities even as the call to close Rikers, which has a long history of violence and abuse, have grown more urgent with the recent death of 27-year-old transgender woman Layleen Polanco. Keep reading.