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The worst of the worst, 62% of inmates are violent criminals. if you closed the place down and have fewer jails there is a high possibility of a violent criminal walking the street. tomorrow he will be in your neighborhood. it will decrease the quality of life of many new yorkers. instead of a jail facility on an island we will have four jail facilities around four burroughs reducing -- heather: only a couple second left. is it a done deal? >> not until 2026 when they pass legislation before shu...

Were urging the mayor to decentralize the jail to put people back in their communities, to shut down the plant, hold officers accountable, bring in treatment, mental health services other sorts of treatment and essentially realize that this sort of culture is so engrained and so pervasive not as just said by me but the correctional commissioners that there is no fixing rikers. there is no reforming rikers. >> you were here two weeks ago and you made the point very strongly at that time were seei...