NYC Plans Jail Space During Convention

[TreasonousBastard]

They are talking about up to 1,000 arrests per day.

That's ONE THOUSAND!!!

Land of the free and whatever.

http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/frontpage2.asp

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The NYPD considered turning the troubled commuter ferry into a prison barge for some of the thousands of activists who could be arrested during the convention. A police official approached the city’s Department of Transportation in May with the ferry plan, one city official said. And Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne confirmed that converting the ferry into a floating prison "was discussed as an option."

But after stiff resistance from the Department of Transportation, the notion was apparently dropped.

"A very cursory inquiry was made by the Police Department, but our ferry division told them that all of the boats would be needed for use," said Tom Cocola, the agency’s spokesman.

Instead, city officials are readying unused space in regular jails, which are conveniently empty in this low-crime era. In an extreme case, the vacant Brooklyn House of Detention in downtown Brooklyn and the Queens House of Detention in Kew Gardens could be reopened, said the spokesman for the Department of Corrections, John Mohan.

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[skooooo]

1. Turning a ferry into "prison barge"..

...that sounds like a really safe situation to put people in.