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Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of then-Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte tour Rikers Island,in 2016.

DeAnna Hoskins

DeAnna R. Hoskins is president and CEO of JustLeadershipUSA, a national, member-driven advocacy organization that seeks to cut the U.S. correctional population in half by 2030. She spent time in the State of Ohio’s correctional system and previously served as a senior advisor at the Department of Justice and as the Director of Reentry for Hamilton County (Ohio) Board of County Commissioners.

Agenda 2019
de Blasio rikers

Opinion: The Unending Urgency of Closing Rikers

By Darren Mack and DeAnna Hoskins | July 2, 2019

‘I’m reminded the cells on Rikers are so hot — that the walls sweat. There was no air. I had to lay on the floor naked, to suck a little bit of air from a slit on the floor, just to breathe.’

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