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Rikers Island crisis: Mayor Adams insists he’s ‘best person’ to fix city jails amid U.S. attorney’s pursuit of fed takeover

By Ethan Stark-Miller Posted on July 18, 2023
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He alone can fix it.

That’s what Mayor Eric Adams essentially said Tuesday as he declared himself to be the “best person” to turn around the city’s troubled Department of Correction — not even 24 hours after Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor Damian Williams called for a federal takeover of the jails on Rikers Island.

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Rikers Island crisis: Mayor Adams insists he’s ‘best person’ to fix city jails amid U.S. attorney’s pursuit of fed takeover

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