Adams solitary confinement stance sets up fight with City Council politico.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from politico.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Eleven months into his mayoralty, Mayor de Blasio described New York City’s jails as broken, “dehumanizing” and in unrelenting crisis, and swore he had a “moral obligation” to fundamentally improve them. Eight years later, de Blasio’s proposed fixes are far from complete, and the jail system is a harsher place for detainees to live and for officers and staff to work.
The incoming mayor’s anti-crime ideas appear to conflict with a push to cut the jail population, clouding the future of plans to close the troubled complex.
Mayor de Blasio’s administration’s has quietly begun moving all detainees in solitary confinement largely for violent attacks on staff back into general population, sources say, outraging jail unions and Mayor-elect Eric Adams.