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Rikers Island. Most of the people on it are pretrail detainees, many of them stuck there because they could not afford bail.

Marlene Nava Ramos

Marlene Nava Ramos is an organizer with No New Jails NYC, a multi-racial, multi-gender, intergenerational campaign aimed to shut down Rikers without building new jails. Ramos is also a member of the NYC Chapter of Critical Resistance, and a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: COVID-19 and NYC’s Heart of Darkness

By Mon Mohapatra and Marlene Nava Ramos | May 14, 2020

‘We’ll never learn the names of people found dead in the subway or in their Rikers cell, preventable casualties of public austerity and incalculable racism.’

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
De Blasio Rikers

Opinion: 11 Reasons Why De Blasio’s $11 Billion Jails Plan Will Fail

By Ngozi Alston, Marlene Nava Ramos and Brittany Williams | October 15, 2019

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