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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Public Advocate Urges Reducing Surging Rikers Population Amid Debate Over Closure Plan

By |2025-05-14T08:59:52-04:00May 5th, 2025|News|

NY Daily News

“Added Darren Mack of the Freedom Agenda, 'The past four mayors, the population had been dropping. When COVID hit, it was less than 4,000 people. Eric Adams gets into office, we’re going in the wrong direction, the opposite direction.'”
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Why Won’t the Adams Administration Open This Years-Overdue Medical Facility for People in Custody?

By |2025-04-28T11:59:56-04:00April 16th, 2025|News|

Hellgate

"But I cannot imagine that their vision for these units was 282 correction officers for 100 people in custody,” said [Sarita Daftary of the Freedom Agenda of the UJC]. "These were originally imagined as essentially medical units with some security, like the minimal amount needed."”
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OP-ED: Rikers Island: A Modern-Day Auction Block in the Heart of New York

By |2025-04-09T11:56:24-04:00April 3rd, 2025|News|

NY Amsterdam News

“Darren Mack, the descendant of Black Southerners and co-director of Freedom Agenda, has personally endured the injustices of incarceration at Rikers..."
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Rikers Island Sees Yet Another Inmate Death – The Fifth In-Custody Fatality This Year

By |2025-04-09T12:01:56-04:00April 1st, 2025|News|

AM NY

“Monday’s reported death marks the 38th of its kind since the start of the Adams administration in January 2022, according to the Freedom Agenda.”
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Another Death In Custody At Rikers, Officials Said — Jail On Track To Outpace Last Year

By |2025-04-09T12:00:39-04:00April 1st, 2025|News|

Gothamist

“In a statement on the death, Freedom Agenda co-founder Darren Mack criticized Mayor Eric Adams for doing “everything in his power to fill up Rikers.” “It’s sickening and immoral.” 
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