Design – Construction – Operations
A growing crisis on the Rikers Island correctional center includes unstaffed areas, endless quarantines and a decline in general services for inmates, according to reports in the New York Post, New York Daily News and other media outlets.
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Rikers Island has warehoused some of New York’s most infamous criminals since opening in 1932, at one time or another hosting such notorious inmates as David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz, John Lennon murderer Mark David Chapman and even Sex Pistols raconteur Sid Vicious.
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The City of New York has plans to replace detention facilities at Rikers Island with four modern, community-based jails throughout the city.
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