Should Rikers Island be closed or not? This is what the candidates for Mayor of New York think | Your Political City New York

Eric Adams said yes, the Rikers jail needs to be closed and replaced with smaller, better-controlled jails. “You have to reimagine what you do there,” Adams said. Meanwhile, Curtis Sliwa questioned his opponent’s response and claimed to be very familiar with the crisis in this place, where “there is no discipline and nothing has been done to protect the community that is there.”

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