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Eric Adams: “51% of Rikers population, they have a mental health issue…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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New York City Podcast with Mayor Eric Adams on Migrant Crisis, Public Safety, and Political Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 1:35:05

And we had a little over 3,000 people that were there. They want to close Rikers down and build four more jails, one in each borough except for Staten Island. 51% of Rikers population, they have a mental health issue. 20% have severe mental health. What I'm saying to them that the four more jails that they want to build, it was going to cause 8 billion. Now it doubled 16 billion to build it. (1:35:05–1:35:13)

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