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NYC Cancels Plans For Bronx Jail
Mayor Bloomberg of New York has announced that plans to build a strongly-resisted 2,040-bed jail in the South Bronx have been cancelled.
The $375 million Bronx jail, the Oak Point Detention Center, had been part of a plan by the Department of Correction to shift thousands of inmates from Rikers Island, relieving pressure on the city’s main jail complex. Martin F. Horn, the city’s correction commissioner, said the agency would continue to seek a suitable site for a jail in the South Bronx that is relatively close to the borough’s complexes of courthouses on 161st Street, making it easier for family members to visit inmates and for prisoners to make court appearances. “One of the points community leaders made is that the jail would have been too big, so we’re looking at something that would be smaller,” said Mr. Horn, who added that it was premature to discuss a specific location or to say how many inmates a new jail might house.
Lots of detail and history in the article from the New York Times.
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