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Professor Michael Mushlin Speaks on the Plan to Close Rikers

June 23, 2017 • Bloomberg News
Professor Michael Mushlin

Jonathan Blanks, a researcher at the Cato Institute, and Michael Mushlin, a professor at Pace University Law School, discuss a new plan by New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio to shutter the controversial prison on Rikers Island. They speak with June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio’s "Bloomberg Law."

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