The Lippman Commission acknowledges Rikers Island cannot close by 2027, yet the City Council maintains its timeline despite widespread opposition to borough-based replacement jails. The delays are exacerbated by underestimations in completion timelines, with new jails now projected to finish well past the initial deadline. This situation appears to frustrate leaders, although Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has not proposed adjustments to the law. The article suggests that without viable alternatives for the existing inmate population, the push to close Rikers seems disconnected from reality.
In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can't close by 2027, but the reality-denying City Council refuses to admit it.
The insistence on sticking with the deadline to close Rikers years before the city has anywhere else to put 7,000 dangerous people is the perfect sign of just how deranged you have to be to remain a New York City progressive.
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