OP-ED: Mayor Adams talks about closing Rikers while working to keep it open

Last month, news broke that the city’s plan to close the Rikers Island jail complex is facing more setbacks.

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The horrific problems at Rikers aren’t new: Most of the people detained there are low-income and Black or Latino. A majority of those incarcerated have mental health diagnoses, making Rikersare even higher—for incarcerated people and their families, for those who work there, and for the entire city.

The City Council, which has struggled to hold the mayor accountable about Rikers, appears to be preparing to change the closure plan. Last year, Speaker Adrienne Adamsthat a nongovernmental commission, led by Jonathan Lippman, the former chief judge of New York State, would “update and enhance” the 2027 closure plan.has made many concrete recommendations about closing Rikers, but the mayor has adopted few if any of them.

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