To the Editor: On June 22, Jonathan Lippman, former New York State Chief Judge and current Chair of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, wrote an opinion piece in the Daily News entitled "The next mayor must shutter Rikers."
I agree that some NYC jails need to be renovated. However, it amazes me that so many subscribe to the idea that simply changing the location of jails will somehow create a utopia in NYC Correction. If you could transfer all the inmates into brand-new borough jails tomorrow, DOC's mismanagement would endure, inmate violence would not be reduced and the root causes of DOC's infirmity would persist.
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