One of the four jails under construction to replace Rikers Island will have additional beds to accommodate the city’s growing detainee population. To make room, a unit intended to help those with mental illness and addiction issues will be downsized.
Meanwhile, the jail population has sharply increased under Mayor Eric Adams, who has prioritized arrests to reduce crime. There are now more than 6,000 people in city custody, but the four new planned jails —which by law must replace Rikers in 2027 — were only designed to hold 3,300 people. Adams has said the city will need a “plan B” to accommodate what his administrationnew Brooklyn jail
A spokesman for the mayor's office confirmed that the city’s jail population is too large to hold in the new facilities. "It has become painfully clear that the plan approved under the last administration leaves open serious questions about the city’s ability to keep New Yorkers safe," said press secretary Charles Kretchmer Lutvak, in a statement.
“Now he's pointing to a jail population that is inflated because of his failed policies, and trying to use it to justify efforts to add more beds to the replacement borough jails,” Mack said. The therapeutic beds will now make up just 22% of the jail beds in Brooklyn, compared to 40% before, said Dana Kaplan, senior advisor to the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, which has guided the city in closing and replacing Rikers. Officials are moving in the wrong direction, she said.
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