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What part of the benefit of the Francis jacket mention we will live up to or any technical questions we are sure far. I'd like to acknowledge mayor amigos here from Secaucus America happy hour tonight. Free Home OK free although Miley. We have. With us commission help from the part of Corrections here. This facility was built as you know as a result of a court order today to provide. 30 trailers which will house. One hundred sixty inmates. These will be minimum security inmates. We expect that starting next week the inmates will begin to move in here perhaps 25 or 30 initially. And. Eventually warden will conjunction with direct account build up the cop coming down here and as I say the capacity is under 60
I'd rather go through it. Now at this particular point say the facility that if there are any technical questions afterwards they would be answered. But before we commence to do that I'd like to me to do this to you at this point. Mission help. Certainly my pleasure to represent the Department of Correction the ministration briefing today. I think that this is one of the evidences of the governor's commitment in keeping with his overall master plan leaving prison overcrowding in New Jersey plant closed by a variety of strategies. Certainly it involved expansion at the state level but also appropriate money to enable County and
increase their local pastor. I want to make just a couple. General remarks first one should not assess this place. At first glance it may appear to be sort of in reality this is a sport. They are known. For the fact they. Will securely confined. But it would also you will also meet a constitutional test as well as national predication stance. You're looking at basically steel and concrete. It's an environment that will securely now. But it is an environment which will damage those confined.
At the state level. It's. A distinct pleasure to work closely with the correctional professionals and the governmental leaders such as they have been. Forward thinking. When I first read. The first one I never did that. With real life.
Oh. OH OH YEAH YEAH YEAH. Better. Looking up. That. Would indicate.
That I. Discovered something that made me. Feel like this is now going to go through.
Morning.
Like. I said. OK. All this begins a new chapter that took a long time to come along I just remarked that it was amazingly good. Once we decided which way I want to go perhaps it took more getting started. Once we get started I'm delighted with the performance of the DBC. Direction and assisting us in getting the completed date. As soon as it is. Oh.
I'm going to see this thing through and through. Thank you if that's
OK. A. I live in a park in the street. It's alright with me just as long as I got someplace to live. What do you think about what New Jersey is New Jersey and New York are both doing for you. They feel that that debate they have and that's a waste of time. You know a person got to have somewhere to live why fight about it. You know that's like fighting over spilt milk. It's not where you know they can compromise salt. They don't have to. Go through all this because like is bring in hard times on the people is here. What are we supposed to pack up and leave. You know I can't go to your house
because you're not going let me stay there. I can't go to his house and he saw hey they just have to work it out amongst themselves. I tell you what give me a job and they won't have to worry about me or my family. Can't even get that out here. I can't get enough of it. You know this is the truth. You know it's just like we we're just being publicized right to make whoever look good. That's the way I feel about it. You know as far as I feel I can do is say what I want to say on TV but they know what I mean whoever they are. But what about you ma'am. Which would you prefer to be doing. I prefer to stay here. Let's find out about housing the housing in New York is. An intro as lousy in hotels. So definitely up first need to find something suitable for me and my children. What luck if you had in finding something. Not. Me you know. Right because I'm on welfare.
Or they come up with some excuse and you know I'm so ready to enter you know like we can't afford to right you know like for what were they giving us a budget is nowhere near what you see in the paper for written apartment you know and it's a shame when you can only go with so much money they say they want more. What can you do. You go to welfare talk to them and they say hey here's a book of rules and regulations we've got to follow. So what are we supposed to do. It's you know you know something. Not being funny but if I understood correctly the people in our Wynnie made the rules for the welfare recipients are here in New York. I think they should come down here in try looking for an apartment in C that ain't no way in a world two people can find an apartment. One hundred and eighty three dollars a month. I appreciate them sending me to New Jersey because the hotels is much cleaner much more decent and much more respectable. But now they're about to send us right back to the garbage cans I don't want to go back to live in a hotel and I would like an apartment. I've been out
here for what. Four months already looking for an apartment. If I find one and I feel I can't pay for it they're not going to give me the money. Because they want to know how I'm not going to pay for what I paid I guess I understand they don't let me bring in the dispossessed as I know but now from Con Edison but if they raise the prices when the prices will go up then I won't have that problem with. So if New York tells you it's time to go back are you going to go. I don't have no other choice but the law that I have a place to live these people don't want me out here as oh of. Those days. From what my mother told me they're moving me back to New York because the people who are here don't want me out here and I like it out here is clean is decent and nobody bothers you. You understand me but I feel that I should have to go back and live in the dumps because they don't want me out here I don't bother nobody out here. You know Stanley I don't do none to harm anybody out here. And if I understood correctly again from what I understand they don't want us out here because crime has risen 86 87 percent since black folks been out here from New York. That's not my problem. I am from New York. I don't participate in a crime that the people who are you know
also ask the NCAA but if that's what they have to do they have to do it. I have to follow every Western nations. I need new people in. Yes you have to know what he's you know a European Central Bank and against him but I think it's just there's nowhere else for. The brutal. Right you know where you think you are wrong with what you're saying if you know if you're both right. What are you right now with the final form before Monday night when I was a guest. You said something you wouldn't mind if you if you would see I want to tell you you know I don't know like I'm going to be watching you. Suck. And.
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New Hudson County Jail
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New Jersey Network (Trenton, New Jersey)
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Raw footage; New Hudson County Correctional Center expansion with a capacity of 160, Commissioner Hilton talks to press, tour of facility, exteriors of prison,
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Chicago: “New Hudson County Jail,” New Jersey Network, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 16, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-259-9k45td7w.
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