New York is Building a Skyscraper Jail

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Is this New York's Most Controversial Building?

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00:00 Intro
01:27 Prisons v Jails
02:08 Chinatown
02:44 The Tombs
04:14 Jail Design
06:33 MCC Chicago
07:50 Protest
08:55 Closing Rikers
10:17 Borough Based Jails
12:41 Too Good to be True?
14:54 What Next?

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TheBM
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There's a distinct irony in building a prison taller than the Statue of Liberty 😂

adoodyify
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$2B to house 800 inmates? This is an insane waste of money.

mammothemil
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Jail-Scraper is a hell of a movie title 😂😂

Mefodon
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A massive prison looming over the surrounding cityscape?

Isn't that just the Bastille?

thomasgatley
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A giant, expensive and bureaucratic skyscraper that's actually a prison, built inefficiently at great taxpayer cost is a better symbol for NYC than the Statue of Liberty.

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The problems for old facility are human rights violations, brutality, lack of staff etc, so pretty much everything related to poor management. So solution for that new building??? Ok.

luk
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Not to be too cynical, but it also seems to me Rikers Island being that size would be a very valuable piece of land that they want to redevelop

WillWatches
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This is literally the pretext to Judge Dredd.

BrianGivensYtube
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It's pretty Victorian in psychological oppressiveness, to have a giant, looming, dominating structure loudly reminding citizens of the power of the state and a system that all to often fails its people.
Everytime the Justice system faces a critical pressure point like this, they use the redesign, or new, building to avoid making real changes; you can change the building all you want, the real issues can't be solved with brick and mortar.

The.Pickle
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"justice hubs" sounds pretty dystopian

BENKYism
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This is the new version of "affordable housing" in NYC.

Tyrell_Corp
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Chicago already has one of these. I remember casually walking downtown and looking up and seeing inmates staring down from 40 stories.

jasperkoliba
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Oh, have we already reached that point of the dystopian timeline?

Stonebrick
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For only 800 prisoners, that doesnt seem very reasonable to building such a facility.

RamblingRodeo
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This sounds like one of my favourite 80’s movies, ‘Escape from New York’. It’s finally happening 😂

Gusssugs
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There is already a federal prison skyscraper in downtown Chicago

bigvig
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“Batman get the joker to the jail scraper before he destroys New York”
“I thought we was in Gotham”
“It’s the same goddamn thing Batman”

Lundershot
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Thanks B1M for making the distinction between jails and prisons...The media often uses those terms interchangably, incorrectly.

davebartosh
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Choosing to build that dystopian monstrosity in Chinatown is just such a blatant slap in the face that I can't be convinced it wasn't intentional.

luvondarox