Black Agenda Report

“Darren Mack is co-founder and co-director of Freedom Agenda , an organization devoted to decarceration and system transformation, including closing the Rikers Island jail."

Amsterdam News

““It’s been two decades since I was on Rikers Island going back and forth to court, but what I recall is they wake you up between 3 a.m. [and] 4 a.m … they load everybody basically on the bus,” said Freedom Agenda co-director Darren Mack. “You probably won’t see a judge until after one o’clock. Some people don’t see a judge at all.”