{"id":206585,"date":"2026-04-22T22:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206585\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:48:50","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-last-steel-beam-placed-for-15-story-borough-based-jail-in-downtown-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206585\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Last Steel Beam Placed For 15 Story Borough Based Jail In Downtown Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">City officials and members of Iron Workers Local 361 celebrated on Wednesday as the last steel beam was placed at 275 Atlantic Ave.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 15-story building is set to become the city&#8217;s first borough-based jail. One of four &#8220;humane&#8221; jail sites that will be going up around the city.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe are focusing on individualized specific treatment, so people are moving away from the criminal justice system completely,&#8221; said Deanna Logan, director of the Mayor&#8217;s Office of Criminal Justice.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">These jails are set to replace the Rikers Island complex, which is legally required to close by August 2027.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re focused on is doing everything in our power to close Rikers,&#8221; said Department of Corrections Commissioner Stanley Richards.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The nearly $3 billion site will be able to house 1,040 incarcerated men, according to the city&#8217;s Department of Design and Construction.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The current completion date for the jail is 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City officials and members of Iron Workers Local 361 celebrated on Wednesday as the last steel beam was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-206585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}