Andrew Cuomo: “Rikers, as we know it, has to be closed.”

“It's run by the city as governor. I said 10 years ago it should be closed. There's all sorts of litigation because the number of assaults, beatings, are horrendous at Rikers. So Rikers, as we know it, has to be closed. The question then becomes, where do we build the new jails or do we build new jails? Right. Because the socialists would say, we don't build new jails.” (43:33–43:36)

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