Mayor Adams should scrap de Blasio’s flawed program to build “smaller, safer, fairer” borough jails — before it sucks up even more money needed to fix bridges, schools and parks.
Trump lands in Milwaukee ahead of the RNC, one day after assassination attempt -- Follow The Post's live blog for updatesIn 2019, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio scored progressive points by signing into law his “smaller, safer, fairer jail system,” pledging to invest $8.7 billion toNone of those three numbers — $8.7 billion, 4,000 inmates or 2026 – was true.The “borough-based jails” program that Adams inherited in 2022 never made sense.
Nor are borough jails — one each in the main commercial areas of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx — going to accomplish what the advocates promised. As Wright said last week, “We did not have the bond capacity” — that is, the ability to borrow — “to even fund the construction until we just got the budget passed.”Most investments in physical assets add to the tax base, by making the city more attractive to live and work in — but jails plunked down in central areas Adams should use these years of delay to his advantage.
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