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New York City’s leading mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, is raising eyebrows once again for appearing to suggest prisons are not important in a recently resurfaced video.
Mamdani, a New York state assemblyman and the Democratic nominee for mayor, made the comments in a 2020 interview while running for state office.
Asked whether he thought prisons were obsolete, Mamdani responded, “I think that frankly – I mean – what purpose do they serve? I think that we have to ask ourselves that.”
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Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani appeared to dismiss the need for prisons in a resurfaced interview. (Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images and iStock)
The Democratic mayoral candidate added, “I think a lot of people who defend the carceral state, they defend the idea of it and the way it makes