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Standing near the Chinatown site of a proposed 16-story new detention center, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday detailed his proposal to scrap a planned shutdown of the Rikers Island jail complex if he is elected mayor.

“My plan is to rebuild Rikers,” said Cuomo at the New York Chinese Community Center on Mott Street. “The island is fine. The island did nothing wrong.”

By law, Rikers must stop functioning as an incarceration site by 2027. Four borough jails with capacity for about more than 4,100 people are either under construction or soon schedule

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