NetQuarterLatte t1_iu5i9cf wrote on October 28, 2022 at 6:22 PM

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

>In this Life Inside essay, former New York City jails commissioner Vincent Schiraldi writes about why Rikers is "Exhibit A for why we need to end mass incarceration.”

NYC jail population has been declining fast and is extremely low now.

mission17 t1_iu5vwar wrote on October 28, 2022 at 7:55 PM

Yet still the jail is seeing record deaths this year. Really speaks well to our ability to incarcerate well when this is what life pre-trial looks like.

NetQuarterLatte t1_iu7cpl1 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:46 AM

How many people were murdered in the NYC jails this year?

MinefieldFly t1_iu6336o wrote on October 28, 2022 at 8:45 PM

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.

drpvn t1_iu68p2g wrote on October 28, 2022 at 9:25 PM

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?

Grass8989 t1_iu6e1i0 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:05 PM

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