It also includes Rikers Island, the citywide correctional complex, which is within the Borough of the Bronx but connected by its only bridge to Astoria.

ISP is part of a larger correctional complex.

But in Westchester, overcrowding at the county's correctional complex in Valhalla has forced authorities to use day rooms to house an overflowing population.

Also last week, Mr. O'Rourke announced that he had hired a consulting firm to draw up a plan to expand the county's correctional complex in Valhalla.

Voters also will be asked to approve $68 million for a 530-bed jail facility intended to relieve chronic overcrowding at the county's correctional complex at Valhalla.

Although it exonerated jail officials on some matters, the commission report cited problems at the correctional complex.

Westchester voters also approved a $68 million bond issue to build a 530-cell jail structure to ease chronic overcrowding in the county's correctional complex at Valhalla.

In 10 days, Westchester voters will be asked to approve the largest referendum in county history - $68 million to build a new 530-bed jail at the county's correctional complex.

If the proposal were approved, the maximum-security facility would relieve serious overcrowding at the county's 1,089-bed correctional complex in Valhalla, parts of which were designed in 1916.

Westchester County voters tonight approved a $68 million bond issue to build a 530-bed jail intended to relieve overcrowding at the county's correctional complex at Valhalla.