A federal prosecutor said Monday his office is seeking to have control of New York City's trouble-plagued Rikers Island jail taken away from Mayor Eric Adam's administration, calling conditions there a “collective failure with deep roots.'
A federal prosecutor said Monday his office is seeking to have control of New York City's trouble-plaguedjail taken away from Mayor Eric Adam's administration, calling conditions there a “collective failure with deep roots."
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York said Rikers “has been in crisis for years" over several mayors' administrations and leaders of the corrections system and he favors a court-appointed outside authority to take charge of the complex. “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.
An email seeking comment was sent to the mayor's press office. Adams has resisted the idea of a federal takeover of the system and has said his administration has been taking steps to stabilize Rikers, which was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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