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The governor's office cited cost and a declining inmate population as the primary reasons for the move, which was tucked away in his budget proposal.

(Reuters) - Violence has increased in New York City's jail system over the past seven years even as the city has spent more money to deal with a steadily declining inmate population, the city's comptroller said in an analysis released on Friday.

That is largely because of declining inmate populations.

The move appears to make New York the first state to make a sizable reduction in prison staffing in the wake of falling crime rates and stabilizing or declining inmate populations; New York's is projected to decline 9percentt.

"If the DOJ's decision to end the use of contract prisons were based solely on declining inmate populations, there may be some justification, but to base this decision on cost, safety and security, and programming is wrong," he said in a statement.

"If DOJ's decision were based solely on declining inmate populations, there may be some justification, but to base this decision on cost, safety and security, and programming is wrong.

A spokesperson for ICE did not respond to multiple requests for comment about whether the agency would break its contracts with CCA or GEO due to declining inmate populations, or in the event that the court rejects the government's request to rehear the family detention case.

A7 World Briefing A10 NATIONAL A16-22 Slight, and Rare, Decline In California Prison Rolls The California state prison system, which led the huge national prison-building boom for years, has recorded its first decline in inmate population in more than two decades, to 161,401 inmates in June, 360 fewer than in June 1999.

Re "California's Prison Population Declines for the First Time in More Than Two Decades" (news article, July 6): You point to prison alternatives and the decline in California's crime rate as two factors in the decline in the inmate population.

The California state prison system, which led the huge national prison-building boom for years, has recorded the first decline in its inmate population in more than two decades, state officials say.

Closing New York City's troubled jail complex on Rikers Island will take at least a decade and will require a big decline in the inmate population, a continued drop in the city's already low crime rates, a wellspring of funding and political capital, according to a strikingly blunt proposal that Mayor Bill de Blasio intends to unveil on Thursday.