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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Construction of borough-based jails and design-build strategies
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The city is committed to constructing state-of-the-art, borough-based jail facilities that prioritize safety, modernity, and proximity to families and communities. The Department of Design and Construction is using design-build strategies to maximize efficiency and save time.
- New facilities aim to transform the approach to incarceration in NYC
- Design-build teams meet daily to find efficiencies and tackle challenges
- Community engagement is ongoing to guide the design and construction process
- The city acknowledges the disruption caused by construction and is working to balance various factors
Deanna Logan
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This this commitment to closing Rikers' success depends on the construction of state of the art jail facilities that supports the safety and well-being of the people in custody.
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But that's everybody, correctional health staff, correction officers, and DOC staff, who will be the ones that experience the facility every day with the individuals that are also in custody.
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These new facilities will be safer.
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They're gonna be modern.
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Most importantly, they're gonna be closer to the families and the communities from where the people come.
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It's not just about the buildings.
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It's about fundamentally transforming how we approach incarceration in our city.
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These borough based jails will allow for more individualized care, better access to support services, and subsequently foster a more successful reentry, which ultimately means we're gonna improve lives.
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As the Littman Commission report acknowledged, DDC utilization of design build strategies is maximizing efficiency and saving time.
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By allowing for site prep and foundation work prior to design completion, This means that the design build teams meet daily with their partners across the city to find new efficiencies and to tackle challenges that arise and later this spring they will issue a notice to proceed for the creation of the fourth and final new jail.
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DDC also initiated robust community engagement in partnership with Correction which will continue for the duration of this program.
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It is important outreach that guides both what our buildings will look like and how we get there.
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The city is making significant investments in infrastructure as well.
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We continue to bring us closer to realizing the endeavors capital needs.
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We know construction is a disruption and, you know, our neighbors, I'm a neighbor, I live in Brooklyn, so I know what that disruption really feels like with that borough based jail, but we're all working to balance speed, safety, adverse impacts on the neighborhoods, and our fiscal responsibility to taxpayers.