Gothamist

"The idea that our criminal legal system produces so much despair should be chilling to all of us," Darren Mack, co-director of the Freedom Agenda, said in a statement Thursday. The nonprofit is an advocacy group that supports decarceration."

Daily News

"For Mr. Lopez Castillo, that included a year and counting at Rikers with no resolution to his case. We are grieving with his family at this horrific confirmation."

Gothamist

"It’s time to stop sending people into this death camp. We need urgent action from City Hall to substantially reduce the jail population and get people out of this hellhole – and this preventable death is yet another human cost of delay,” Mack said."

Queens Daily Eagle

"Today, we're calling on Mayor Mamdani to make decarceration an urgent priority,” Darren Mack, the co-director of the Freedom Agenda, said on Monday."