New York City’s Rikers Island jail is rotten stink hole. If you don’t believe me just ask the publicity seeking politicians. Many a politician went to the jail the other day and demanded that the jail to be closed. Do they believed that he jail should be closed or was it just grandstanding I do not know. They didn’t say were the inmates (most of whom are waiting trial should go. Perhaps they should be let out onto the streets of New York hoping that they don’t commit crimes that they were originally arrested and hoping those who are a waiting trial show up for them. Perhaps New York State can open it prison that were recently shut, hiring the guards that were recently fired. You can shuttle the inmates to the city for their trials, those most who visited the jail would cry bloody murder.
Now one might ask how did this jail get into this disrepair? It didn’t after all happen over night. I ask the question to myself , why wasn’t an other prison built on Rikers, were prisoners could be shuttled to and the other seven prisons on the island slowly be rebuilt to be more humane. Why aren’t there enough guards in the prisons or is the city being too cheap and perhaps it’s the mayor’s fault taking money for the current prison system and putting it into his pet project prison ( I don’t know what the allocation for the prison system is , the comptrollers should). I do know as a layman that not enough is being spent n the current prison system. The grandstanding politicians are a day late and a dollar short.
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