With the city’s jail population dipping under 7,000, the de Blasio administration announced that the Brooklyn Detention Complex would close by the end of January and the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island would shutter in March.
According to the Nov. 21 announcement by city officials, “Staff at BKDC and EMTC will be reassigned to other facilities, and the closures will not result in any layoffs.”
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