{"id":188479,"date":"2026-04-07T16:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188479\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:49:32","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-new-unit-at-bellevue-hospital-to-serve-those-incarcerated-at-rikers-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188479\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | New unit at Bellevue Hospital to serve those incarcerated at Rikers Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking a step closer to closing the Rikers Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe city&#8217;s first outposted therapeutic housing unit is now open at Bellevue Hospital to serve people in custody who are in need of specialty care.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe mayor is calling the lack of healthcare available within the walls of Rikers unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe new 104-bed facility is open on the Bellevue Hospital campus and provides services in areas including oncology, cardiology and neurology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking a step closer to closing the Rikers Correctional Facility. The city&#8217;s first outposted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-188479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}