Hispano murió en cárcel Rikers Island de Nueva York: 19 casos este año
El Diario
"'Edgardo Mejía recibió una sentencia de muerte sin juicio', dijo Darren Mack, codirector de Freedom Agenda, grupo de defensa de personas encarceladas."
Deadly year in Rikers with 19 deaths in DOC custody
Amsterdam News
“'Edgardo [Mejias] was delivered a death sentence without a trial,' said Freedom Agenda Co-Director Darren Mack. 'What will it take for judges, prosecutors and police to stop churning people through this death trap, and for the mayor to stop encouraging them?'"DOC Commissioner Says Too Many People In Rikers Island To Close It Down
92Q Jams
"'Why do we just say we’re going to throw our hands up and say nothing changes, and send more people here to die?' Sarita Daftary, co-director of Freedom Agenda, asked City Council members."Close Rikers? Correction officials say they may have too many New Yorkers to incarcerate.
Gothamist
"'Why do we just say we’re going to throw our hands up and say nothing changes, and send more people here to die?' Sarita Daftary, co-director of Freedom Agenda, asked City Council members."Rikers Island shoplifting suspect dies of suspected overdose, 19th death in NYC jails this year
NY Daily News
“Edgardo Mejia was delivered a death sentence without a trial,” said Darren Mack, co-director of the Freedom Agenda, an advocacy group for people impacted by incarceration.“What will it take for judges, prosecutors, and police to stop churning people through this death trap, and for the mayor to stop encouraging them?”Prisoner found dead on Rikers Island, bringing DOC death toll to new, staggering high
AM NY
"'Now is the time to invest in housing, treatment, and everything we know creates safety, and stop sending people to Rikers to die,'” Freedom Agenda Co-Director and former Rikers Island inmate Darren Mack said in a statement."NYC Needs Thousands of Apartments for the Formerly Incarcerated. 50 Face Furious Opposition
City Limits
"Nearly every single person on Rikers Island will be released at some point. And when they get out, they will need a place to live, said Darren Mack, a formerly incarcerated organizer with the Freedom Agenda project of the Urban Justice Center."Turkey Day at Rikers
Amsterdam News
“Anna Pastoressa, a founding member of a leading campaign to close Rikers, Freedom Agenda, felt Adams’ comments calling detainees “some of the most violent offenders in the city” mischaracterized those actually held in the infamous jail... “These are presumably innocent people according to our Constitution and they are innocent until proven guilty.”
