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| Jail reopening and expansion proposed |
| By New York Magazine |
| Published: 02/12/2008 |
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NEW YORK - Two city commissioners revived plans last night to reinvent the jail system. And, they say, gloss up Atlantic Avenue in the bargain. Martin Horn, who runs Corrections and Probation, told a roomful of architects that marooning detainees on Rikers Island thwarts justice (“Nothing angers a judge more than having a jury impanelled and a defendant stuck in traffic on the BQE”) and tempts disaster (the one bridge to Rikers evidently sits between a jet-fuel tank and what Horn describes as “railroad cars full of chlorine gas”). Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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