City jails boss avoids providing up-to-date timeline on Rikers' closure during council hearing
transition to borough-based jails when asked for one by City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Thursday.
Although the agency he leads administers the city’s jails, Molina said questions on the four borough-based jails’ construction schedules should be directed to the city Department of Design and Construction as that’s the agency charged with building the facilities. Molina responded by repeating that DDC is overseeing the construction of the borough-based facilities, even though the funding is coming from DOC.“What we’re focusing on is…how we are going to manage the transition from Rikers Island to those borough-based jail facilities,” he said. “But construction timelines and all of that, those questions have to be answered by DDC.
Molina said the agency is putting together a project management team, overseen by one of his assistant commissioners, charged with designing the transition from Rikers to the borough-based jails — like making sure the new jails are inline with State Board of Corrections standards. To fill that team, he said, DOC is recruiting uniformed staff internally and searching externally for subject matter experts.
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