NYC Orgs Urge Boards to Support Borough-Based Jails Plan | Correctional News

More than 20 New York City providers of education, training and reentry services to justice-impacted people are urging local community boards to approve of the City’s plan to close the Rikers Island jails and build a smaller system of facilities in the boroughs.

Organization leaders are calling attention to critical benefits to health, mental health and successful reentry of the City’s plan through letters of support and testimony at Community Board hearings. Keep reading.