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Grass8989 t1_j2nivd1 wrote

We should focus on speeding up the courts so someone isn’t waiting 200+ days for their case to be heard.

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psychothumbs OP t1_j2nmabm wrote

Meanwhile it seems Adams is doing the opposite - gumming up the works as much as possible to increase prisoner counts so he can justify keeping the place open.

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Grass8989 t1_j2noqv4 wrote

I don’t think closing the physical space would matter much, the vast majority of people that are being held on Rikers are being accused of pretty serious crimes. The solution shouldn’t be to release dangerous people pretrial just for a statistic. Speeding up the courts will get people sentenced and sent upstate (or wherever) where they can serve their actual time.

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