In a recent interview, Adams suggested that the city would not meet its legally mandated deadline.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Elected officials and advocates stood in front of City Hall on Thursday with clocks made of posterboard and started a countdown for when the city jail on Rikers Island will close: four years from today.
On Tuesday, Adams suggested that Rikers can’t be closed because there are too many people detained there.with NYU law professor Ross Sandler, which was posted on YouTube. “And if the City Council with their authority is not willing to re-examine and come up with some new ways of how to resolve this…”The 35-to-14 vote by the Council to close Rikers in 2019 was seen as one of thereformers in over a decade. Then-Mayor Bill de Blasio declared, “This era of mass incarceration is over.
During this week's interview, Adams complained about the high costs of building the new jails to handle the 6,000 people currently detained in the system. He suggested that if the city must meet the 2027 deadline, then “2,000 of those people are going to be placed back into the community,” risking public safety.
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