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Re: Rikers Island why it should be shut down |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Fri Jun 23 01:27:07 2017, in response to Re: Rikers Island, posted by AlM on Thu Jun 22 19:06:01 2017. Well lets discuss why it would be worth closing down.1. Rikers isnt helping anyone basically it has become a giant holding cell. Most people in Rikers are there awaiting their day in court. If anything Rikers is a reminder of an overburdened, underfunded, beauracratic nightmare of a court system. We should not have people waiting years or getting lost in the system. 2. Its dangerous and outdated. It is not helping anyone where its been proven time and time again that sneaking contraband into Rikers seems quite easy, and that technology has left Rikers in the dust. Building smaller, newer, smarter facilities makes it harder for criminals to communicate and recieve contraband, makes it safer for correction officers and makes it harder for bad corrections officers to commit criminal acts. So basically if you have smaller, more secure facilities and a better court system. There is truly no need for Rikers. So lets force us to visit the problems plauging the system like the court system and how pourous Rikers is and lets fix them. If we keep Rikers open we dont fix any of those lingering problems and they remain an elephant in the room. We the taxpayers end up footing the bill in keeping people in jail when they should not be, and from numerous lawsuits stemming from what is going on there. Not everyone at Rikers is a saint, lets make thet clear, but for low level offenders who are truly no harm to society there should be 0% chance they suffer in a bureaucratic nightmare that costs us the taxpayer in the end. |
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