{"id":1248,"date":"2015-04-16T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:29:17","slug":"new-york-city-mayor-bill-de-blasio-unveils-plan-to-cut-rikers-island-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2015\/04\/16\/new-york-city-mayor-bill-de-blasio-unveils-plan-to-cut-rikers-island-population\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Unveils Plan to Cut Rikers Island Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2015\/04\/bill-de-blasio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1249\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2015\/04\/bill-de-blasio.jpg\" alt=\"bill-de-blasio\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of late March, over 400 people had been locked up for more than two years without being convicted of a crime\u00a0&#8230; As part of Mr. de Blasio\u2019s proposal, all cases involving defendants who have been incarcerated for over a year \u2014 currently more than 1,500 people \u2014 are to be put on the court calendar within 45 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full NYTimes article, by Michael Schwirtz and Michael Winerip,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/14\/nyregion\/mayor-de-blasios-plan-to-shrink-rikers-population-tackle-court-delays.html?ref=todayspaper\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;As of late March, over 400 people had been locked up for more than two years without being convicted of a crime\u00a0&#8230; As part of Mr. de Blasio\u2019s proposal, all cases involving defendants who have been incarcerated for over a year \u2014 currently more than 1,500 people \u2014 are to be put on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[114,38,78,135,136],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-harvard-plap","tag-harvard-prison-legal-assistance-project","tag-mass-incarceration","tag-mayor-bill-de-blasio","tag-rikers-island","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}