Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume 45 Number 2 The Geography of Confinement Article 3 2018 Beyond the Island: Changing the Culture of New York City Jails Michael Jacobson Executive Director of the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance Elizabeth DeWolf CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance Margaret Egan CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance David Hafetz Executive Director of Crime Lab New York Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj Recommended Citation Michael Jacobson, Elizabeth DeWolf, Margaret Egan, and David Hafetz, Beyond the Island: Changing the Culture of New York City Jails, 45 Fordham Urb. L.J. 373 (2018). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol45/iss2/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Urban Law Journal by an authorized editor of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. BEYOND THE ISLAND: CHANGING THE CULTURE OF NEW YORK CITY JAILS Michael Jacobson,* Elizabeth DeWolf,** Margaret Egan*** & David Hafetz**** Introduction ............................................................................................. 375 I. Historical Conditions at New York City Jails ............................... 379 A. Conditions at the DOC: Historic and Continuing Challenges .............................................................................. 380 1. A Legacy of Violence, Neglect, and Litigation ............ 384 * Michael Jacobson is the Executive Director of the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance (“ISLG”). Prior to launching ISLG, he served as President of the Vera Institute for Justice from 2005 to 2013. He was New York City correction commissioner from 1995 to 1998, New York City probation commissioner from 1992 to 1996, and worked in the New York City Office of Management and Budget from 1984 to 1992 where he was a deputy budget director.