Queens Daily Eagle
“Rikers is a grave risk to the life and safety of everyone there,” [Darren Mack, the co-director of advocacy group Freedom Agenda, said in a statement.]. “It’s past time for Mayor [Eric] Adams, district attorneys and judges to stop sending people to a known death camp, and take every necessary action to shut it down as the law requires.”NY Daily News
"In the wake of the death, Freedom Agenda Co-Director Darren Mack referenced an increase in the jail population and in police arrests and the mandated closure of Rikers Island in 2027. Delays in the construction of the new borough jails has placed the closure date in serious doubt."The City
“Rikers has claimed another life, and yet another family is grieving today,” said Darren Mack, the co-director of the Freedom Agenda, a nonprofit pushing to close the troubled jail. “And still, the mayor continues his cruel campaign to arrest and jail more of neighbors, subject them to more abuse and neglect on Rikers, and stall its long-overdue closure.”NY1
"Mohammed Attia was a vendor for a decade, and is now the managing director of the Street Vendor Project.“The vending system has been set up for many decades, baiscally criminalizing the street vending community, making their jobs and businesses difficult to run,” Attia said."CBS NY
"Nearly 20,000 entrepreneurs, the majority of whom are immigrants, people of color, veterans, and women, are employed as street vendors in New York City, according to the Street Vendor Project organization."News 12
"Groups like the Street Vendor Project are raising their voices to call on the city council to raise the cap on permits and offer more support to those who need them to run their businesses in line with the law."La Grada
"As Ann Biddle, litigation supervisor at the Urban Justice Center’s Mental Health Project, explained in an SSA blog post, applicants must prove that their disability has prevented them from performing substantial work for at least one year or is expected to result in death."NY Daily News
Jennifer Parish, director of the Mental Health Project at the Urban Justice Center, said she visited men being held in the ESH unit at the Rose M. Singer Center on Tuesday. “Some reported being out of their cells no more than four hours a day and some less than that."The City
"Dr. Victoria A. Phillips, [part of UJC's Mental Health Project and] a founder of the Jails Action Coalition, said the mayor and his administration “waste our time,” and didn’t read their plan for how to enact the bill."New Amsterdam News
“A lot of people cannot access the permits because there are caps on the number of these permits that goes back to the ‘80s,” said Mohamed Attia, managing director of the Street Vendor Project.© 2024 Urban Justice Center | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
