Steven Dominguez

In the 10,000s, 10,000, 12,000, 13,000 at a time.

Remember the scenario I gave you on my first day, I'm in charge of 100 inmates and I'm on the floor going back and forth.

So a population decrease is the main reason for this bail reform.

That I can't give you the exact total amount.

But if there was 10 operating buildings at the time that I was a CEO, it was filled up to the T. Like there wasn't enough, you know.

So now with this bail reform, they've decreased the population a lot.

And they think that with the decreasing population, it's less violent.

And because the officers have a little more control.

It's already infrastructure that is deteriorating.

Rikers has been there since like the 1920s, early 30s.

Yeah, but it's on an island.

It's across the river, the Hudson River from LaGuardia Airport.

There's a power plant next door.

The water's polluted.

Things are deteriorating by the day.

The metal is breaking off the walls and these inmates are sharpening these metals and cutting each other with them.

So it's not working for anybody.

So what they plan on doing is closing down Rikers.

Not so much releasing all of them, but the really bad ones, we're going to put them in the borough jails like Queens and Brooklyn House.

And we'll have the same COs that we had on Rikers, just house them there.