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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...

Professor Mushlin writes, "The decision announced Friday by Mayor de Blasio to endorse the central recommendation of an independent commission and close the sprawling jail complex on Rikers Island — by downsizing the city’s pretrial...

They cite the deplorable conditions in the prisons and note that situations are not much better in other areas of the country. Professor Mushlin, an expert in prison reform and the effects of solitary confinement, recently testified before the NYS...