Redefining Safety and Justice for the 21st Century City

  • Matthew Marani

    • FILE - In a June 20, 2014, file photo, the Rikers Island jail complex stands in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background. New York City says its jail population is below 9,000 for the first time since 1982, and officials are hailing the drop as a step toward closing the notorious Rikers Island jail complex.Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, the city is on track for a daily average jail population in December of about 8,980 people. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

    A discussion co-sponsored by Open House New York, The Architectural League, Urban Omnibus, and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union.

    Over the last three decades, New York City has seen a dramatic in reduction in crime that has transformed it into one of the safest big cities in the United States. The proposal to replace Rikers Island with a network of borough-based jails–and the fundamental rethinking about past strategies of policing, prosecution, and detention–have brought New York’s criminal justice system to an inflection point. What criminal justice system do we want for our city for the 21stcentury and what kinds of spaces do we need to support it? Join us for this wide-ranging conversation about the future of justice in New York.

    With Elizabeth Glazer, Director of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, and Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President, The Fortune Society. Moderated by Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director, The Architectural League.

    This event is presented as part of Urban Omnibus‘ The Location of Justice, and “Spaces of Justice,” a yearlong series organized by Open House New York to explore the architecture and infrastructure of New York’s justice system. Major support for “Spaces of Justice” has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Free admission is made possible by a grant from the Reba Judith Sandler Foundation.

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