Mamdani opens luxe $241M hospital ward for inmates— complete with basketball court —as he pushes to close Rikers

Source: New York Post

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced the opening of a new, quarter billion hospital unit for city inmates complete with specialty care and access to “therapeutic settings. ” The 104-bed facility at Bellevue Hospital will provide access to oncology, cardiology and neurology, and will be the first of three “outposted therapeutic housing units” for prisoners — in what City Hall claimed marked a “major step” in shuttering the troubled Rikers Island jail complex. “Opening this new clinical facility at Bellevue Hospital is how we begin to close Rikers Island — not with promises, but with action,” Mamdani proclaimed.