A federal prosecutor said Monday his office is seeking to have control of New York City's trouble-plagued Rikers Island jail taken away from Mayor Eric Adam's administration, calling conditions there a “collective failure with deep roots."
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York said Rikers “has been in crisis for years" over several mayors' administrations and leaders of the corrections system and he favors a court-appointed outside authority to take charge of the complex.
