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Opinion: NYC Needs a Mayor Who is Serious About Safety

By |2025-07-07T10:47:04-04:00June 23rd, 2025|News|

“The truth is that the dehumanization of people held at Rikers starts...in our communities, where we are denied the resources we deserve and then punished in our struggle to survive, and it continues in a court system that comfortably treats us as guilty because it presumes that our lives are of no importance anyways.” - “Darren Mack, co-director, Freedom Agenda

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NYC DOC Confirms Two Additional Deaths On And In Transit To Rikers Island

By |2025-06-23T13:16:08-04:00June 21st, 2025|News|

Norwood News

"Also reacting to the news was Freedom Agenda, an advocacy group for incarcerated people. A spokesperson said Kelly and Maldanado became the sixth and seventh people to die “in DOC custody” this year. They said forty people have now died in custody since NYC Mayor Eric Adams took office."
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Rikers Island Sees Two More Inmate Deaths In 78 Minutes – Prompting More Investigations And Outrage

By |2025-06-23T13:14:30-04:00June 21st, 2025|News|

AM NY

"In a statement Saturday, Freedom Agenda Co-Director Darren Mack blasted Rikers Island as a “death camp,” and expressed concern that more deaths may come due to the anticipated heat wave in Rikers facilities that are “already crammed to capacity."
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Mayor Adams Announces Plan To Close Rikers Jail Barge, Create Marine Terminal In Hunts Point

By |2025-06-16T14:55:12-04:00June 9th, 2025|News|

Bronx Times

“Like Rikers, the Boat has facilitated mass incarceration and dehumanization. Today’s announcement is a victory for all of our members who have suffered its harms, and raised their voices to call for its closure,” said Darren Mack, Co-Director of Freedom Agenda, said in a statement.”
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Chinatown Residents Propose New Location For Manhattan Jail In Rikers’ Closure Plan

By |2025-06-16T14:57:05-04:00June 5th, 2025|News|

Amsterdam News

“Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda, needs more assurance about Rikers’ closure. The borough-based jail advocate pointed to the 38 people who died in or immediately after DOC custody over the past three years, almost all of whom were held on Rikers Island.”
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Amid Rikers Crisis, Bronx Borough Jail Builders Start Design Process

By |2025-06-16T14:59:11-04:00June 2nd, 2025|News|

Mott Haven Herald

“That grief, anger, and an impulse to shield other families from the pain she knows are why she wants to see Rikers Island closed. Carter says she joined the jail reform group, the Freedom Agenda, to pursue this goal. “With Rikers, it’s a huge task; it’s a whole day of a visit,” she said."
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Cause Of First NYC Jail Death In 2025 Revealed As Drug Overdose

By |2025-06-02T11:33:20-04:00May 28th, 2025|News|

NY Daily News

“The Department of Investigation has issued multiple reports outlining what our members know — the primary source of drugs on Rikers is not mail or visitors, but the one source DOC refuses to address — their own staff,” said Sarita Daftary, co-director of the Freedom Agenda."
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Survivors Of Rikers Rally For The Expansion Of Community-Based Alternatives To Incarceration…

By |2025-06-02T11:35:01-04:00May 27th, 2025|News|

Legal Action Center

“Darren Mack, Co-Director of Freedom Agenda said "New Yorkers deserve to live in a city that doesn’t short-change the most important resources for community safety, like housing and mental healthcare, just to fund the bloated Department of Correction."
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Now Hiring: The Receivership Search Begins After Federal Judge Greenlights Takeover

By |2025-05-28T09:02:17-04:00May 22nd, 2025|News|

Amsterdam News

“'We’re gonna continue to do the advocacy and organizing around those issues that we’ve been pushing the city to implement the law, and that’s around decarceration,” said Freedom Agenda co-founder Darren Mack."
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