Legal Opinion
Gerges v. Koch
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 1, 1984PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
Petitioners challenge the proposed conversion of the “brig”, located at 136 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, into a medium security prison facility. This conversion is a crucial component of the City of New York’s short-term emergency construction program to expand its jail capacity by 1,400 beds by the end of 1984. Despite the city’s recent expansion of its jail capacity by more than 2,500 beds, with another 1,600 to 1,700 beds approved and in the construction pipeline, a gradual increase in annual admissions of pretrial detainees combined…
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