New York City should not run its own jail. That is the conclusion from the city agency that conducts oversight of the jail and the U.S. District Attorney.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York will ask a judge to take control away from the Adams Administration at a court hearing Thursday afternoon and hand it over to the feds.
"But after eight years of trying every tool in the toolkit, we cannot wait any longer for substantial progress to materialize," he said in a statement, adding that his office would seek to have a court-appointed receivership put in place. City Comptroller Brad Lander just issued a new report revealing that since January of 2022, at least 26 inmates have died while in custody in the city's jails, underscoring the persistent dysfunction, the report says.
"Anybody that says that this facility is not so much better and is headed in the right direction is not being honest and is playing political games," Council member Bob Holden said.
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