New York City ‘Buckling Down’ After Some Released Inmates Commit Crimes

Mayor Bill de Blasio told the press on Monday that New York City is seeing “some recidivism” from a small percentage of the inmates released due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Roughly 50 of the 1,400 inmates released from Rikers Island have been rearrested in the intervening weeks, according to reports by the New York Post. The former prisoners were released in concern for the spread of the coronavirus — classified “COVID-19” by the World Health Organization — within the infamously overcrowded institutions.-- More...