Gothamist

“But [Freedom Agenda's Darren] Mack said if Rikers Island is ever renamed, it should only happen after the facility is shut down, not before. “To change the name now while the Rikers is still functioning as a penal colony doesn’t move the work of ending the torture forward,” said Mack.

Queens Eagle

“It is unconscionable that the mayor continues to avoid putting in the work necessary to close the pipelines that feed incarceration and expedite the closure of Torture Island,” Daren Mack, the co-director of advocacy group Freedom Agenda."

NY Daily News

“We are again grieving the loss of another life on Rikers Island,” said Darren Mack of Freedom Agenda, noting Powell’s death is the 34th since Mayor Adams took office in January 2022."

Prism Reports

“Launched in 2018, the Rikers Public Memory Project (RPMP) was founded as a joint project by the decarceration initiative Freedom Agenda [and others]...to collect and amplify the voices and stories of those who have been most impacted by Rikers Island"

NY Daily News

“Darren Mack of Freedom Agenda, an advocacy group, said that 'Sending legally innocent people there to be picked off by ICE is yet another reason Rikers needs to close as quickly as possible.'”