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NYC to begin releasing inmates amid coronavirus outbreak
By Julia Marsh and Ben Feuerherd, NY Post, March 18, 2020 | 7:04pm | Updated
Story continues below advertisementMayor Bill de Blasio plans to release “vulnerable” inmates from city jails to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic into local lockups, he said Wednesday.
“In the next 48 hours, we will identify any inmates who need to be brought out because of either their own health conditions — if they have any pre-existing conditions, etc. — or because the charges were minor and we think it’s appropriate to bring them out in this context,” de Blasio said on WCBS radio Wednesday evening.
“That said, we still need our criminal justice system to function,” he added.
The announcement comes as a correction officer and an inmate both tested positive for the deadly illness in the past day.
The Correction Officers Benevolent Association union has called for new masks to protect its members and for all new detainees to be housed in facilities other than Rikers Island amid the outbreak.
Some city officials, including Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, have pushed for the city to begin releasing prisoners who are over 50 years old and at a low risk for reoffending.
The city Board of Correction, which oversees the jails, said in a statement Tuesday that the Big Apple needs to follow the lead of Los Angeles and Ohio authorities, who have already started to release inmates to try to prevent the spread of the potentially deadly contagion. That would include not just suspects awaiting trial but inmates serving sentences of less than a year.
“The City must begin this process now,” the BOC said. “The City’s jails have particular challenges to preventing disease transmissions on a normal day and even more so during a public health crisis.”
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4 years ago
De Blazio is beyond a nutter. He is down right EVIL. I don’t know if his plans went through on this – shutting down. He wants to shuttle that and REBULD prisons in residential areas! Would you like a prison in your neighborhood? How about lots of halfway houses near your schools and a prison on two? Imagine the cost and duplication you get to finance when it is now ALL contained on the island and your neighborhood is alittle safer.
The trend is to RELEASE criminals that are “non violent” and others that can be “supervised”. Yeah that is always a disaster. They really want lawless anarchy.
Plan to shut down Rikers Island revealed
By Rebecca Rosenberg, Carl Campanile and Yoav Gonen
March 30, 2017
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The 10-year plan also calls for slashing Rikers’ population by putting hordes of jailbirds back on the streets under “supervised release,” a source familiar with the commission’s work said Thursday.
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https://nypost.com/2017/03/30/plan-to-shut-down-rikers-island-revealed/
4 years ago
4 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
I guaranatee you they will be told to LEAVE and become a “refugee” or “migrant” and promise to never come back or else! When they are accepted and continue to commit crimes in the next country and finally caught, they will not deport them because THEIR life will be at risk. So the liberal country will be stuck with them.
4 years ago
4 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Nothing but morons in charge of libturd cities and states!!!
4 years ago
ACTUALLY, inmates are much safer in their Cells. NYC’s Mayor is dumber than a box of rocks.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
How can you reason with wanting to take people out of quarantine when they’re safely quarantined?
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
When released they will all go out and get jobs or go out and break laws to feed and house themselves??? Just wondering what kind of moron would release felons into society at the same time they are talking about locking law abiding citizens in their own homes?!!!!!
4 years ago
Robbery, attacks with violence, violent people with mental problems have been released over the past few months, because these are ‘minor” crimes.
4 years ago
More proof that the only fix for STUPID libturds is lead poisoning!!!!!
4 years ago
The worst f*cken mayor in history since William Poole.
4 years ago
Huh??? How more stupid can de-Blowsio be??? These criminals are already safely quarantined.
4 years ago
The inmates already run this city!
4 years ago
I thought they were passing a shelter in place law? If anybody SHOULD have to shelter in place, it should be inmates! DUH!
