New York’s Controversial Skyscraper Prisons – Cheddar Explains
From Cheddar. New York City is halfway through a multi-year plan to construct four new jails – one each in the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, and Queens. These jails will, in theory, substantially decrease the overall incarcerated population and allow the city to close the most notorious prison in the United States: Riker’s…