When It Comes To Criminal Justice Reform, New York City Is The Beacon Of The Country
As of Jan. 1, there were 8,705 prisoners in city jails — 6,793 of them on Rikers. December was the first month in three decades that the average daily population was below 9,000. New York City’s incarceration rate of 167 per 100,000 people in 2016 is the lowest in...