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MinefieldFly t1_iu6336o wrote

Reply to comment by NetQuarterLatte in I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers. by marshall_project

Mostly true, but it looks like decline has slowed and either leveled out or reversed. There are more people on rikers today (5500) than in 2021 (4900), and almost as many as the average daily population in 2020 (5800).

Obviously 2020 was a weird one, but had ~4 normal months too. We are not back at 2019 levels yet (7,938) but we will see what happens next year.

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drpvn t1_iu68p2g wrote

At any rate, the jail population is near historic lows. And yet . . . did you know that the plan to replace Rikers would have a maximum bed capacity of only 3200?

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Grass8989 t1_iu6e1i0 wrote

Well, crime is on the rise so that does kind of make sense.

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