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Re: Rikers Island |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jun 23 09:58:30 2017, in response to Re: Rikers Island, posted by ClearAspect on Fri Jun 23 09:50:38 2017. But building jails elsewhere has the same cost of demolition and rebuilding, but it adds property acquisition. It is likely that the land on Rikers is completely unmarketable and can't be sold to recoup the costs to purchase land elsewhere.I don't see the argument that placing the jails closer to the courts. One proposal for a replacement jail has one at the end of the long dead-end of Maspeth Avenue in Brooklyn. Still out of sight and out of mind of most people and not usefully closer to the courts. The major costs for transportation will still be there, it doesn't add that much to drive the prison bus for a few more miles. |
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