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The Perils and Potential of Closing Rikers Island
By citylimits.org- Ed Morales
Published: 11/25/2015

When one brings up the idea of closing down Rikers, there is a sense of great risk, that air of uncertainty that arises when you suggest reinventing the wheel – but at the same time, it's bracing to think about the city taking on a policy change that is truly about more than tinkering around the edges.

Although her social justice advocacy organization, VOCAL-NY, has not developed an articulated position on whether or not the city should close down Rikers Island, Alyssa Aguilera seems to think that a consensus is slowly emerging among her peers. "I was in a meeting the other day with a bunch of advocacy folks and we were saying, ‘If you could be mayor, what would you do?' And so many of these people who I was not expecting to hear this from were saying, ‘Close Rikers, close Rikers, close Rikers.'"

"These were not lefty organizers," she added. "They were social workers who ran youth advocacy programs."

From the activists coalescing around #ShutDownRikers and the Jails Action Coalition who say Rikers is a "factory of human rights abuses" to the smattering of people in city government who have embraced the call, there is a sense that it is possible for the city to bypass incremental reform in favor of wholesale change.

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