AM NY

“In the meantime, criminal justice advocates seeking Rikers’ closure, such as Freedom Agenda Co-Director Darren Mack, lamented the latest inmate death on Rikers Island, and urged Mamdani to take “urgent action” to keep other inmates alive."

NY Daily News

“Darren Mack of Freedom Agenda, a group that advocates for the jail population, noted it is the 48th jail death during Adams’ time in office. “That is Mayor Adams’ legacy — he took a place that was already creating such immense harm in our communities, and managed to make it even worse,” [Mack said].

Queens Eagle

“Darren Mack, the co-director of Freedom Agenda, said that Randall’s death on Monday was a result of Adams’ management of the jails. “As we head into the holidays, another family is grieving..."

Amsterdam News

“Prayers and condolences to yet another family mourning the loss of their loved one on Rikers Island,” said Freedom Agenda co-director Darren Mack. “Forty-seven deaths in DOC custody since Mayor Adams took office..."

The City

"Ashley Santiago-Conrad, a senior organizer with Freedom Agenda, said her family endured the system for two and a half years while her nephew — diagnosed with autism and other developmental disabilities — was held at Rikers. “We’d arrive by 7 a.m. and wait under that hell of a bus shelter...”

The City

"This is the outcome of an administration that has chosen incarceration as a solution to every social problem such as mental health, homelessness, and more, in our city,” Darren Mack, the co-director of Freedom Agenda, said in a statement following Furse’s death."

AM NY

"Darren Mack, co-director of the Urban Justice Center’s Freedom Agenda, shared a statement with amNewYork about the inmate’s death. “Prayers and condolences to yet another family mourning the loss of their loved one on Rikers Island. Forty-seventh death in DOC custody since Mayor Adams took office,” he said."

NY Daily News

“This is the outcome of an administration that has chosen incarceration as a solution to every social problem such as mental health, homelessness, and more,” co-director of the advocacy group Freedom Agenda Darren Mack said in a statement."