Adi Talwar
READ PART I: The Growing Calls to Close Rikers Island
‘If it takes smaller, replacement jails to close Rikers, then the mayor and the City Council must pay heed. We will then eventually need to close the new ones as well.’
Housing units for extremely low- income households are not being preserved or created in line with the level of need in the city, the report from ANHD found.
“Roughly eighteen months ago I was released from state prison after serving nearly forty years throughout the state of New York. Contrary to what you may have heard today, there are no good prisons. Jails, prisons, and correctional facilities are cruel, inhumane, and oppressive places.” —Jose Saldana (Director, Release Aging People in Prison) Mayor […]
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