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-MillerPosted on
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.
