NYC’s borough-based jail boondoggle is nearly $8B over budget and years behind schedule

The Big Apple’s borough-based jail program has nearly doubled in cost and remains years behind schedule ahead of the troubled Rikers Island complex’s legally-mandated shutdown. The plan has ballooned into a $16 billion boondoggle and isn’t slated to wrap until at least 2032 — five years after the City Council’s deadline to end housing inmates...