Parole Facility Planned Next Door to St. Ann's School
The U.S. Attorney’s Office is planning to open a major parole facility at 147 Pierrepont Street, a Ratner-owned property located between the lower and middle school buildings of St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights. The new center, which would consolidate two existing parole offices in the Downtown area, is slated to serve 1,700 Federal parolees…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office is planning to open a major parole facility at 147 Pierrepont Street, a Ratner-owned property located between the lower and middle school buildings of St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights. The new center, which would consolidate two existing parole offices in the Downtown area, is slated to serve 1,700 Federal parolees and be manned by armed guards, according to an email from a member of the school community. A call to Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez’s office revealed that she and other public officials are trying to schedule a press conference at some point in the future to protest the location of the new facility. They better get moving: The new space (pictured on the jump) is supposed to be open for business as early as mid-August, just in time to welcome the kids back to school. UPDATE: This statement just in from Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez: Locating a parole office just steps away from a school is extremely troubling. Anything that puts the security of our children at risk is unacceptable. Before all other considerations, their safety must be the top priority.GMAP
Will the Ikea bus provide free transportation to the parole facility?
Just how I felt knowing there is a methodone clinic a few doors down from a public school.
please, the high school kids who want access to drugs already have it, this facility has no bearing on that matter.
Most of the St. Ann’s kids will go on to become parolees in the future anyway.
The court house is right across Cadman Plaza, so this is a natural place to put it.
Nice, 9:09.
I love the image of Mr. Master of the Universe dropping off Ophelia and Harrison at their fancy private school, checking in with his parole officer, and then heading off to work.
Parole offices shouldn’t be anywhere near schools. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be fired. If most of the parolees are white collar offenders, why not stick this into office space in a typical 9-5 district, so they could easily go to work?
Federal offenses ordinarily are prosecuted in the district in which they occur.
Eastern District of NY includes Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk, I think. Main courthouse and prosecutors’ office is on Cadman Plaza, with satellite offices on the Island. I think, and I may be wrong or out of date, that the vast bulk of the volume in the Eastern District is drug related.
Manhattan is in the Southern District. Main courthouse is in Foley Square, with the US attorney’s office and jail right behind it.
What’s a “family neighborhood.”?