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Court Allows Brooklyn Jail to Reopen But Cannot Double Jail size Without Environmental and Land-Use Reviews

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Court Allows Brooklyn Jail to Reopen By SEWELL CHAN March 18, 2009 NY Times A Brooklyn judge has cleared the way for the city to resume sending inmates to the Brooklyn House of Detention, which stopped housing them overnight in 2003, but has ruled that the city?s effort to nearly double the size of the jail required environmental and land-use reviews. The ruling, released on Wednesday by Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, was a partial victory for the city and a partial victory for opponents of the jail, including community groups and elected officials. ?The court?s decision clears the way for the city to continue to use the Brooklyn Detention Center as a jail for Brooklyn, just as it has since 1957,? Correction Commissioner Martin F...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 20, 2009 (boomark / email).