NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams ripped for calling Rikers Island ‘death camp’ – while admitting troubled jail won’t close by 2027

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City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called Rikers Island a “death camp” Monday even as she admitted the troubled jail complex can’t shutter by 2027 — but still refused to say whether she’d amend the law mandating its closure. “The pandemic caused the slowdown of the closure of Rikers, obviously,” Adams finally acknowledged during a forum...

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