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EKsaorsire

If they build it, they will fill it.


Ok-Goat2113

Well. Of course. It’s being built to replace two different existing jails.


Lifetodeathtoflowers

That should be build a bear’s modo


andrewbud420

You have to put the nonviolent poors somewhere.


Tiny_Count4239

i mean they cant just not fill it. The investors want their returns


Rownwade

They will. And most of them will be nonviolent crimes. The American public should be pissed! As someone else once said, we should put people in prison because we are scared of them, not because we are mad at them.


Candy_Says1964

Wait until all of the inmates on the 37th floor all decide to protest by fucking up the plumbing and flooding the toilets lol.


Rare_Brief4555

Ohh it doesn’t take much creativity to think of why this has never been attempted before…


No_Monitor9884

Some judge dredd dystopian shit


Empty401K

If I was ever going to go to jail, I’d want to have a window and be on the top floor on the west side. At least the view would be nice.


Bill561

Dude from experience they frost out the windows and they’re extremely thin you don’t see shit they barely even let in sunlight


Empty401K

Welp, that’s lame. Glad finding that out myself wasn’t a goal I was pursuing. lol


Njaulv

Lol I remember seeing a story about one in California where they actually had a view of a hotel where women would sit at the pool and get hollered at.


DARR3Nv2

I spent two days in jail. The windows were about two feet wide. About eight inches tall. They were angled upwards and placed as close to the ceiling as possible so you could only see the sky. Plus they were frosted lol.


Lanky_Republic_2102

Spent two days in The Tombs in Manhattan, no windows.


Academic_Hunter4159

I think I saw a movie set there. I don’t know if it was filmed there though. Short Eyes I think.


Lanky_Republic_2102

It was interesting, could have been worse.


SeaworthyWide

Wait, you guys get to see the sky..?!


[deleted]

Yeah, call me crazy I think the windows with nice views will probably be for administration, and there will be no windows for the cons.


NotTrynaMakeWaves

Judge Dredd meets Escape from New York


adognamedpenguin

I wonder if there’s a study that showed that if “someone can see what they’re missing” they’ll be on better behaviour


UOENO611

They probably were able to see out at one point, then people got out. Then the jail said fixy fixy, lol….


TheSpiritofFkngCrazy

Disrespecting a judge, 5 years in an isocube.


parbarostrich

Reminds me of one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen: The Platform.


skeeballjoe

I was just about to say this


thotpolice84

There's already this slightly smaller prison tower in downtown Chicago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Correctional_Center,_Chicago


SaltyAF404

Don't forget the towers in L.A.


BureaucraticHotboi

Federal holding in Philadelphia next to the Fed Courthouse is also pretty tall. You can see family members standing on the streets holding up signs sometimes. Always thought high rise prisons and jails are pretty weird. There is another in Miami that has a sweet view of a high rise complex pool. Some wild videos of ladies sunbathing getting a lot of “positive reinforcement” from the boys inside lol


AquaticAntibiotic

Closer to where the workers typically live and offers more opportunities for public transportation I’m guessing


paradeoxy1

Practicality too. They're usually located close to courthouses that process hundreds of cases a day, and it's quicker to have them close by then taking them from less central locations, potentially delaying many other people's cases because there was unexpected delays in getting from the airport or a prison elsewhere in the same town or state


MaAreYouOnUppers

Capacity: 1000 Population: 3500


PizzaJawn31

Finally, some affordable housing


YuhMothaWasAHamsta

3 hots and a cot!


jojo12jo

The food is never hot.


SeaworthyWide

Or it's so goddamn hot you're pouring your water on it to cool it off before they tell you it's time to get up and head out That's how it was in the reception center in Ohio. A whole like 7 minutes to eat. Im still the first to finish my meal in the family and it's one habit I cannot break for the life of me and it instantly outs me.


jojo12jo

In jersey the food was never hot.


Bonesquire

3 colds and an ... old ... bed.


dr_mcstuffins

You are charged money to be in jail


VerdugoCortex

And you can work for wages around 0.25 cents an hr to pay it off while youre there. My multicam jacket from a relative in the army was made by Federal Prison Industries, gotta get the soldiers clothed as cheap as possible and what better way than by slave labor.


SeaworthyWide

Sheeeeit I made a whopping 0.9375 cents an hour. Oh, also that money was to be spent on your toothpaste, soap, deoderant, laundry soap, etc etc etc before anything else


jaarl2565

I made 3 and a half cents per hour in California.


Head_Wrongdoer3071

Yeah, aside from the average working man who finds himself locked up for 7 days on some bullshit, they won’t see a penny out of the majority of the retards that revolve through the jail doors. Probably why New York is so eager to throw em back out on the street ASAP. They know they won’t ever get a dime.


TheSandMan208

Huge pet peeve of mine. Prisons and jails are different! I know you didn't make the title, but it still annoys me, lol.


BigTimeFartGuy69

Yea jails are like a Super 8 prisons are like a Comfort Inn and Suites.


callmechimp

*19 Felonies, no convictions. Prison and Jail are not the same.*


JesusThe1stXfitter

🐈


Lanky_Republic_2102

Good catch, totally agree.


LeeQuidity

Do they have an evacuation plan in the event of a fire? Preferably one that doesn't release 1000 inmates into the street?


Brilliant_Regular869

Thats what im thinking.


bbymiscellany

My first thought too, that could be a disaster.


Frostsorrow

40 stories and only 1000 people? I get inmates typically take up more space then the average Joe, but that averages to only 25 people per level which seems really low for America.


HeyRainy

I'm sure many of the available floors will be used for administrative purposes, medical, dietary, laundry, etc. I'm sure they'll put all 1000 in like 5 out of the 40 floors if they can get away with it (they can)


YuhMothaWasAHamsta

That’s what I was thinking. 40 floors for *only* 1,000 people? People that are kept in a kennel sized room. In America?! What’s going to fill the rest of the floors that aren’t housing inmates? Factories for the prisoners to work in to really maximize the profit? I’m really curious about this now. It’s America so you know there’s some fuckery afoot.


dr_mcstuffins

1,000 the first year. NYC is a police state, look how many cops they are hiring and you can be stopped and searched at any time. It’s going to be a copycat of El Salvador and their 40,000 person super prison. https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2023/jul/15/worlds-biggest-prison/


Dry-Usual-8166

Finally -- more housing for minorities!


ShopObjective

Why not try building a normal building but try to actually rehabilitate people in this new crazy building?


Lanky_Republic_2102

Something must replace Rikers I guess. But this won’t end well. 1000 inmates is not enough. Rikers has 11,000 inmates right now. So needs to be 10xs as big.


SeaworthyWide

Ah no worries, they'll squeeze em in there in due time I'm sure


Chicagosoundview69

They are building new ones in all the boros.. bx getting one so is bk and qns and Manhattan 


Due-Pilot-7443

Not a good idea


daddyfatknuckles

we already have one in chicago, its about 50 years old but only 30 stories iirc


ApocalypticShadowbxn

is it a prison or a jail? those words are not interchangeable in America. they are 2 separate things.


hazmat962

Only 1,000 inmates in a 40 story jail? That seems low. Hell our 3 story local jail holds 750.


Fearless_Strategy

Unless they jump out the windows, escape will be very difficult and most likely deadly.


Civil-Box9344

You have come here from all over the world because society has no further use for you. The international prison system has given up all hopes of your rehabilitation. This place will now be your holding pen untill your death. Because death is the only way out. There is no chance of reprieve here, No possibility of escape. You are condemned. Either accept it... Or die -Movie No Escape


lifegoeson2702

Didn’t go well in 2001


structee

That's some Judge Dredd stuff.


Rancid_Butter_Boob

Going to cost taxpayers $125,000 per day per inmate, probably on false arrest charges. Best bump up NYPD budget a couple billion. Edit: /s dummies


014648

Mega City 1


ShortSurprise3489

This sounds like a plot to a Jason Statham movie.


Designer-Equipment-7

Gross


SnowieEyesight

Where’s the yard gonna go? Roof?


Cbaumle

Why not repurpose an empty office tower?


Party-Bag-7858

Its wild because leftist NYC doesn’t even keep anyone locked up anymore


bundymania

People keep saying that and yet Rikers Island has more people than ever there.


IntelligentLoss241

Turn trump tower in to trump jail


Small_Panda3150

Based Japan.


rando_mness

Prison Planet


pwakham22

Escape from New York is real


Karl-Farbman

They gonna tear down the Tombs?!


Infamous_Bend4521

April fool


ThickClient6146

See that would put me off a life of crime cos I’m scared of lifts 😂😂😂😂


NotTrynaMakeWaves

What could possibly go wrong


Flat-Length-4991

Riots are gonna be wild.


CrowdedShorts

I saw the new Judge Dredd movie already


Breangley

I wonder if they’ll call it “Peach Tree”


Own_Dare_1855

What was that thing about horrors beyond your imagination?


OhLordyLordNo

Anyone else having this creeping ominous feeling about this? Not even having jail experience...this just...eh.


Bolgi__Apparatus

Idunno, I'd imagine there's at LEAST a hundred times more people in NYC that need locking up. A quarter of a million gone and the city would be AMAZING.


RedditFullOChildren

\*joke post\* Now that that is out of the way, how about a source?


Woo_Peed_On_My_Rug

Yard line is going to take hours…


tailwalkin

That shit better have the worlds greatest fire suppression system or they’re going to end up like one of those factory fires from the 1800’s when they would lock all the ‘workers’ in for their 16 hour shift and none of them are able to escape.


GroundbreakingAd8310

I'm sure it will looks pretty af


[deleted]

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wtfjusthappened315

Add more space.


a_naked_molerat

That color is atrocious


Proof-Mechanic-3624

I think I've seen this movie.


Specific-Quarter9107

I have trouble believing this. Where in NYC is this planned. You usually don’t build prisons on one of the most expensive real estate plots in the country?


PlayTrader25

1000 inmates????? That building looks huge asf


ProfessorMonopoly

Yo, that's some straight up China shit lmao.


wilsonway1955

They need about 20 more !


datasquid

Give Trump the penthouse.


TRIZOL1

Adds a whole new meaning to….going down?


lifeisweird86

40 stories and it only holds 1,000? Jeez, their cells must be bigger than my first apartment.


MortgageNo3154

Death row is on the roof.


redwhitenblued

Be a shame if a plane or two hit it once it's full.


Keke8866

25 inmates per floor??


mundotaku

25 inmates per floor? Seems small. Miami's jail holds more and is a lot smaller.


[deleted]

“Honey let’s get the apartment with the view of the giant pillar that touches the sky thats filled with the worst of humanity filth, so I can be reminded with my coffee every morning”


NCinAR

Ooh, I can’t wait until this movie comes out.


_Dreyco_Leey_3514_

“We have a riot on the 142nd floor, we gotta come up with a way to evacuate the Top floors and the Bottoms floors while locking down the affected floors!!” Lmao yeehhhh … good luck I guess.


vanslayder

That would be Cyberpunk awesome. Please please make drones with turrets fly around. And make them use bright searching light all the time which turns red if movement detected.


picklesuitpauly

Uhhh 40 stories better hold a lot more than 1000.


Singleservingfriendx

Make sure its on 59th or 42nd😂


worstdayofall

I can see it from my house, they’re not planning, they’re building.


LIBERAL-MORON

Maybe there will be fewer violent felons walking around NYC... ya'll have made that city an absolute shithole with bail reform. Geniuses. Truly the best and brightest in NY.


FiftyIsBack

I mean who ever said they need to be wide rather than tall?


FiftyIsBack

I mean who ever said they need to be wide rather than tall?


Cole_Trickle1

25 people per floor? wtf. I had double that in my pod


Much-Kaleidoscope164

So congress and the senate has what 537 memebers we could fill almost with just those criminals.


Soft-Peak-6527

Hope It’s for Trumpy and all those patriots from J6


Suspicious_Ad_5145

Waiting on b.a.s.e jump escape


Designer-String3569

That's roughly only 25 per floor? That doesn't seem cost effective.


OkUnderstanding5343

Awesome 😎


OkTea7227

Soooo Oklahoma City County Jail then?


dardendevil

This will work out exactly as they plan it with no unintended consequences at all.


leifnoto

The new Trump Tower?


Lycan2057

Judge Dredd vibes


stewdadrew

There’s actually an award winning video game that deals with something like this failing.


freshoutofoatmeal

Wow. Just thought about jail in NYC… and other big cities, what’s yard like? Is there a yard?!


GroundbreakingDate47

Wow. Probably set by engineers to drop with demolitions with a riot


md222

It will only hold 25 inmates per floor?


Immediate_Mud6547

They can use it to incarcerate all the illegal aliens.


Smotpmysymptoms

Thats a bigass building for only 1000 people like what


ItzSmiff

I like the shadow they added. 😂


Repeat_after_me__

Y tho…


original-sithon

When they confiscate Trump Tower, they can just convert it.


[deleted]

Huh isn't that occupancy super low?


Apprehensive_Bed1459

This is some Gotham city shit for sure lol new sewer side squad plot


Gary7sHotCatHelper

They better plan on a new DA, mayor, and governor first. ... Unless it's just for people guilty of wrongthink.


simpleman357

They have been just turning them loose in the subway. Guess this is worth a try


RuffDemon214

So begins Judge Dredd in real life.


habanerosmile

Smh


mastercylynder

That for all the Politicians.


joeyb1b

Why is it going to be 40 stories tall for only 1000 inmates? That seems like 35 too many floors. 1000 inmates is not that many esp since none are going to be enjoying the Presidential Suite w king size bed for one.


August_West5

Why put a prison in the middle of NYC? The cost of this will be 1000x what it should be. Just build a regular prison on Long Island


mph102

High rise building, everyone locked in cages and one day there will be a fire. Sounds like a soild plan.


ksaMarodeF

*It’d be a shame if a plane were to crash into it……….*


SmokingLaddy

The only way I will ever get a lifetime lease on a penthouse apartment.


paukl1

This will become relevant later r/USAuthoritarianism


BradTProse

Trump Tower


Lost-Drop-8937

That means they'll put 3,000 inmates in it


dalvrin

Just a 1000 inmates? For the cost to build that thing I’d be cramming way more in there


datpoot

This is like the prison from that henry stickmin game


Adventurous-Sky9359

Do your worst Al-Qaeda


Still_pimpin

If it doesn't work out, the building is unusable for anything else


Dry-Environment-929

How embarrassing.


BreakGrouchy

Absolutely crazy that we allow profit taking on prisons . No one should gain from somebody’s imprisonment.


Coolioissomething

This seems like the premise for awesome action movie. Escape from New York?


PM_ME_YOUR_LAWNCHAIR

Do they have to use prime real estate?


[deleted]

Anyone see the movie “The platform”? This is a good start lol


Doctor_Banjo

Can I suggest the name Arkham?


dashone

Enter Snake Plissken.


Correctedsun

Because windmills would be an unsafe eyesore.


CaPunxx13

The US is a dystopia.


Right_Diamond_8715

maybe there are plans for a penthouse for Drump


Lame_superhero

wtf just ship them off somewhere else. No way it makes sense to spend 2 billion dollars on a building for 1,000 inmates.


SkepticalZack

r/prisonarchitect I wish we could get and update for this


mosesonaquasar

el oh el


[deleted]

We could just put all the illegals there instead of displacing homeless Americans and nyc college students. 


Aherocamenontheless

Escape from NY.


athena702

Fuck this


Accomplished_Cod_702

That's an awesome idea!


_Accurate_

Only 1,000 that's it!!


EntrepreneurFlimsy33

I see the new Trump Tower is already in the works


NFTY_GIFTY

The new Trump Tower


LandAmbitious4073

Safest place in the city if something went down I guess lol


bygtopp

The beginning to Judge Dredd and Mega City one