“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,…
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Ngozi Alston is an organizer with No New Jails NYC, a multi-racial, multi-gender, intergenerational campaign aimed to shut down Rikers without building new jails. Alston is a also community organizer with BYP100, and centers disability justice through a Black queer feminist lens in her work throughout NYC.