Posted on 04/09/2024 12:27:11 PM PDT by Jonty30
The world’s tallest prison standing at 300-foot is being built in Chinatown, New York City, sending residents into an uproar.
The 40-floor tower which will house 1,000 prisoners will be located on the grounds of the former Manhattan Detention Complex.
Known to locals as The Tombs, the old prison will be demolished in order to make way for the “jail scraper”.
The destruction of the detention complex has caused major disruption for nearby residents, with heavy dust and loud noise creating chaos.
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They have to keep MAGA somewhere.
Insanity....
You’re right.
“Do not challenge the State or you’ll end up in a Gulag”.
J6 Political Prisoners are suffering from it now.
1,000 inmates is not a large prison, and certainly not a "Mega-Prison". Rikers Island holds 15,000 inmates, and is a far larger site. It might be the tallest, but nowhere near the world's largest. It's not even close the New York's largest.
40 FLOORS NOT 40 feet
Building below ground would probably more than double the cost. You have to dig, possibly blast (in the city) the dirt. You’d have to move the dirt somewhere else. You’d have to not only waterproof the structure, but you’d need special equipment running 24/7 to dehumidify the air. Probably the crew and worker types you’d need for the dig phase are not the same as the ones you’d use to build the structure and you’d have to find them somewhere as they probably don’t live and work nearby. I’m sure there are other issues I haven’t listed.
After it’s built, how long before they kick the prisoners out to make room for housing for migrants.
Wait, I thought they were going to all the new prisons we built for them in Guantanamo! /Q
It should be for migrants (illegal aliens) after all they broke the law.
You mean when they’re first processed before going to Gitmo?
The article says it’s the world’s largest supermax. I don’t know the capacity for other supermax prisons in the US. I understand other supermax prisons are not necessarily stand alone buildings, but this one is. Maybe that’s the difference.
I agree, but filling in the hole afterwards saves everyone so much money.
“Known to locals as The Tombs”
I was once wrongly held there over a July 4th weekend. The records had me for an apparent unpaid traffic citation of many years previous. Then the Friday before July 4th I got caught in a traffic “sweep” while passing through Manhattan on my way to work at a consultant gig on Long Island. The cop was a gung ho motorcycle cop whose normal duty was out in Queens.
After I was taken downtown, a serious of errors happened.
First they were supposed to just give me a “DTA” (desk appearance ticket) with a court date that I’d be notified of later; but they didn’t; we went directly down into the Tombs.
And they were not supposed to lose all the paperwork for the whole affair.
48 hours after I was taken six floors down into the tombs, into one of a number of large 30-40-50 person holding areas, with persons responsible for the most minor to the most serious violations, a court staff person finally came looking for me, took me back upstaairs and apologized for my not just getting the DTA to begin with, and with them losing track of me (that first time).
I got the lette for the court date and appeared in the right court on the right date and on time. Then I waited and waited and waited to be called up to the judge - till lunch time and for an hour after lunch, and it never happened. I finally approached the court clerks in the court room, gave them my name and asked why they had not called out my name, yet. They said they had no paper work on me and told me to go upstairs to a particular window. I went to that window and no one there could find any paperwork on me. They sent me upstairs to the Manhattan DA’s office.
Then I got the second aploogy. When I met the assistant DA, she claimed “Ah there you are, we’ve been looking for you”. I told her how I had been in the court room all the time, waiting to hear my name called and no one called it. Then she said “well they should have called your name, and sent you directly up to us, as - and I apologize, there is a problem; we have lost all the paperwork on you, so there are no official charges; just go to a city court and pay the old traffic citation.”
I asked “That’s it, I spent 48 hours in the Tombs for a mistake, and I can just leave now and not worry about it”.
She said “Yes”.
I politely demanded an apology letter be sent to me, signed by the DA, for the record; which I have carried in my car ever since. Who knows that someone at some point in time were to find the missing paperwork and have me picked up all over again, even after I got the traffic ticket taken care of.
Why do they need a new jail? They let all the criminals out anyway.
“Do not challenge the State or you’ll end up in a Gulag”.
J6 Political Prisoners are suffering from it now.
Their prisoners from Jan 6 was/is their warning shot, to keep us quiet.!
Even a Conservative Great Grandmother has been jailed, abused and miss treated!
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