PODCAST EPISODE | 5,000 with the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, Liz Glazer
August 30, 2018
5,000 with the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, Liz Glazer
Mayor Bill de Blasio has a plan to close the jails on Rikers Island, in part by reducing the overall city jail population to 5,000 detainees, down from about 8,200 now, which is down from well over 20,000 two decades ago. Liz Glazer, director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, joined the podcast to discuss the closure of Rikers and the administration’s other criminal justice policies.
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