--- title: How Data Will Help Fix New York City's Jails description: Getting data out of NYC's jails, climate change on the local level, closing colleges and more. canonical: https://time.com/4066535/data-jail-new-york-city/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-08T16:01:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:19.528Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Data Will Help Fix New York City's Jails og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4066535/data-jail-new-york-city/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Data Will Help Fix New York City's Jails twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Data Will Help Fix New York City's Jails by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 8, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 8, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**To fix NYC’s jails, the first step is freeing the data.**](http://www.citylab.com/crime/2015/10/as-a-start-to-nyc-prison-reform-jail-data-will-be-made-public/409402/) By Brentin Mock in CityLab **2\.** [**All climate change is local.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-08/all-climate-change-is-local) By Michael R. Bloomberg and John F. Kerry in Bloomberg View **3\.** [**As enrollment falls and debt mounts, more colleges could be closing.**](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/28/moodys-predicts-college-closures-triple-2017) By Kellie Woodhouse in Inside Higher Ed **4\.** [**How fear shut America’s door on Syrian refugees.**](http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/10/how-fear-slammed-americas-door-syrian-refugees/122618/) By Molly O’Toole in Defense One **5\.** [**The business model for ISIS is unsustainable.**](http://www.vox.com/2015/10/7/9466633/isis-financial-records) By Zack Beauchamp in Vox  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4066535/data-jail-new-york-city/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4066535/data-jail-new-york-city/"},"headline":"How Data Will Help Fix New York City's Jails","datePublished":"2015-10-08T16:01:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:19.528Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4066535/data-jail-new-york-city/","keywords":["Innovation","climate change","Refugees","ISIS","colleges"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4066535/data-jail-new-york-city/","name":"How Data Will Help Fix New York City's Jails"}}]}] ```