Eric Adams pushes back on incoming NYC Council members’ demand to end solitary confinement at Rikers

More than two dozen incoming City Council members demanded Tuesday that Mayor-elect Eric Adams end solitary confinement at Rikers Island — sparking a war of words with the next mayor just days after he said he’d continue to segregate violent inmates from the jail’s general population.

Adams set the stage for the standoff last week after Mayor de Blasio began moving detainees out of solitary confinement, also known as punitive segregation. In response, Adams said he would maintain the practice.