New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy sat down with CBS News New York’s Marcia Kramer for this week’s episode of “The Point.”
Jumaane Williams on Rikers Island
This week, a federal judge appointed a remediation manager for Rikers Island. So will it make a difference in conditions there?
“They didn’t create this mess. I don’t think they made it much better. My thing has been it is not working for anyone there. The people who work there, the corrections officers, certainly not the detainees who are dying at high rates. We’ve got to try something new,” Williams said. “I am hoping that this is the thing that will get us where we need to go, which is a place where people can feel safer.”
Williams talked about the importance of changing the culture at Rikers…