medically vulnerable prisoners, de Blasio said. A city working group is expected to present a plan for ending the controversial practice altogether by the end of September.“Let’s take the next step,” he said during a briefing. “We have proven that we can keep jails safe with much less use of solitary confinement punitive segregation.”De Blasio also noted that the Rikers Island jail complex was slated to close.
The New York City Council approved shuttering the notorious facility last fall.The death of Cubilette-Polanco, 27, has sparked nationwide calls for criminal justice reform.
The Afro-Latinx transgender woman was being held on $501 bail dating back to a 2017 prostitution charge. She died last June in solitary confinement following an.