The Adams administration is preparing to reopen a jail facility on Rikers Island to add space for convicted people who should be moved to state custody but can’t right now because of post-strike chaos.
The city Department of Correction is set to once again house detainees inside a small section of the Anna M. Kross Center (AMKC) jail on Rikers, according to multiple jail sources.
City jail officials closed most of AMKC in July 2023. The jail, one of the largest facilities on Rikers with capacity for up to 2,300 people, was previously used to hold people with mental illness and other health ailments…