Direction Of Rikers Receivership Could Soon Change If Eric Adams Is Out And Jumaane Williams Takes Over

By |2024-10-07T12:59:34-04:00October 2nd, 2024|News|

City & State

"Darren Mack, co-director of the Urban Justice Center's Freedom Agenda, says, "Mayor Adams has never seemed to truly understand the way Rikers undermines public safety. The Public Advocate, on the other hand, has consistently supported the closure of Rikers and measures to rein in DOC's worse abuses."
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No Criminal Charges for Rikers Guards Who Failed to Save Bleeding Man, AG Says

By |2024-09-16T15:47:39-04:00September 11th, 2024|News|

Gothamist

"No one should be sent to a place where guards aren't required — and aren't compelled by their own sense of humanity — to try to save someone who is bleeding to death," Darren Mack [cofounder of Freedom Agenda] said.
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Fifth Person Dies at Rikers Island

By |2024-09-04T11:38:13-04:00August 22nd, 2024|News|

Queens Chronicle

"In response to the death of Anthony Jordan, 63, Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda, one of the many grassroots organizations leading the Campaign to Close Rikers, issued a statement. “It’s past time for Mayor Adams, district attorneys, and judges to stop sending people to a known death camp, and take every necessary action to shut it down as the law requires.”
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Rikers Detainee Dies of Alleged Medical Emergency

By |2024-09-04T11:39:27-04:00August 21st, 2024|News|

Queens Daily Eagle

“Rikers is a grave risk to the life and safety of everyone there,” [Darren Mack, the co-director of advocacy group Freedom Agenda, said in a statement.]. “It’s past time for Mayor [Eric] Adams, district attorneys and judges to stop sending people to a known death camp, and take every necessary action to shut it down as the law requires.”
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Man Held on Rikers Island Dies in Queens Hospital; 5th Jail Death in 2024

By |2024-09-04T11:40:39-04:00August 20th, 2024|News|

NY Daily News

"In the wake of the death, Freedom Agenda Co-Director Darren Mack referenced an increase in the jail population and in police arrests and the mandated closure of Rikers Island in 2027. Delays in the construction of the new borough jails has placed the closure date in serious doubt."
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Another Rikers Death Raises Questions About Medical Treatment, Safety

By |2024-09-04T11:36:52-04:00August 20th, 2024|News|

The City

“Rikers has claimed another life, and yet another family is grieving today,” said Darren Mack, the co-director of the Freedom Agenda, a nonprofit pushing to close the troubled jail. “And still, the mayor continues his cruel campaign to arrest and jail more of neighbors, subject them to more abuse and neglect on Rikers, and stall its long-overdue closure.”
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23-Year-Old Rikers Detainee Dies Amidst Allegations of Neglected Medical Attention

By |2024-07-24T10:27:29-04:00July 17th, 2024|News|

Digital Chew

"Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda, strongly condemned Mayor Adams. Mack points out, under Adams’ leadership, the population of people serving city sentences like Jones has quadrupled."
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Rikers Island Detainee Dies After Jail “Repeatedly Ignored” Requests for Medical Help: Lawyers

By |2024-07-24T10:29:04-04:00July 16th, 2024|News|

NY Daily News

“The responsibility for Charizma’s death rests squarely on [Mayor Adams'] shoulders,” Mack said. “He could be using his power to provide alternatives to incarceration for more people who are serving short city sentences, like Charizma."
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Opinion: Borough Jails Must Move Forward, With Guidance From Impacted People

By |2024-06-17T15:29:38-04:00June 12th, 2024|News|

City Limits

"When the state takes away a person’s liberty, it bears a serious obligation to provide them proper care, and the built environment is a big part of that." - Ashley Abadia-Santiago Conrad, Senior Community Organizer
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Will NYC Make it Easier to Find a Home After Jail?

By |2024-06-17T15:27:38-04:00May 23rd, 2024|News|

City Limits

"Having housing available for people leaving jail is key to achieving this goal, according to Victor Herrera, an organizer with Freedom Agenda, an anti-carceral organization with the Close Rikers campaign."
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