New Yorker here. If this happens, great, but ysk that building those replacements jails is a knock-down drag out fight on the local level. Even renovating/replacing an existing jail in my neighborhood is being opposed by people that literally want to get rid of jails altogether. Literally, we can't close the terrible, poorly run jail (Rikers) because some people don't want jails at all.

So take this article with an enormous grain of salt. And ymmv, but articles that simultaneously play to green energy projects (good thing) and carceral reform (good thing, more complicated in reality) are likely high-minded click-bait.