Tag: Decarceration

Bronx Defenders’ Revised Statement on the Closing of Rikers Island and the Creation of Borough-Based Jails

The Bronx Defenders strongly supports closing Rikers Island and the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center (“the Boat”). The conditions within these facilities are inhumane and there is no solution but to permanently close them. We, nevertheless, retract our original statement that supported replacing Rikers and the Boat with borough-based jails and have decided that we […]