After asking for my son’s belongings for over two months to find out they were destroyed angers me so much #BrandonRodriguez#rikersisland I wanted his phone his wallet (clothes) his religious beads that you see him wearing in this picture all gone smfh 😪
Rikers is the most expensive and least effective tool our city has to create safety.
📢 JOIN US Friday, March 7 as we rally before the City Council hearing on criminal justice to demand a budget that will get Rikers closed!
#CloseRikers
📰BREAKING: Tomorrow marks 3 years from the deadline to #CloseRikers. NOW is the time for Mayor Adams to take action to deliver on the legal & moral mandate to shut this hell hole down. But he isn't doing that. So, we created an announcement for him...
https://t.co/GYWiLQDu6u
Closing Rikers by August 31, 2027 is the law, and @nycmayor must follow it. New Yorkers need action NOW to invest in real solutions for public safety and erase this stain on our City once and for all. #CloseRikers
Closing Rikers by August 31, 2027 is the law, and @nycmayor must follow it. New Yorkers need action NOW to invest in real solutions for public safety and erase this stain on our City once and for all. #CloseRikers
August 31 will mark three years from the legal deadline to #CloseRikers. But Mayor Adams is doing everything in his power to take us backward and to stall this historic plan.
We're taking action all week to tell the mayor to GET RIKERS CLOSED.
A month after the mayor signed an executive order to block the implementation of the #HALTSolitary law, Public Advocate Williams questions whether the administration has taken any steps to address that purported emergency and implement the law as required: https://t.co/qfRc7DaV3v
"The future of #Rikers is clear in that there is a legal mandate for it to close by 2027...In the meantime, we have to make investments in...pretrial services, alternatives to incarceration, the therapeutic beds." @carlinarivera on @BrianLehrer https://t.co/pCPQUySd2y
We were out in Brooklyn & the Bronx yesterday showing our support to people starting the dreaded bus trip to #Rikers, and educating community members about the legal and moral imperative to #CloseRikers.
Join us to keep building #PeoplePower to #GetRikersClosed!