BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Two concerned councilmembers are calling on the city to move female detainees currently held at a jail facility on Rikers Island…
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BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Marching through the streets of Lower Manhattan on their way to Police Headquarters in the Civic Center, five protesters demanded justice…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Armed with posters, megaphones and boxes of Dunkin doughnuts in hand, community members from across Lower Manhattan gathered at the break…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Chanting “Mayor Adams — no new jail!” a flood of hundreds of fired-up protesters marched through the streets of Chinatown on…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | “While most Chinatown businesses focus on food, health and medicine, this Chinatown dig specializes in mass incarceration,” activist and comedian says…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | The protesters’ demands are pretty simple: No new jails! It’s actually the same thing that Eric Adams said almost a year…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Declaring that it’s critical to “center humanity” within the city’s jails and criminal legal system, Councilmember Carlina Rivera on Thursday…
BY ELIAS MANSELL | Updated Tues., Aug. 3, 12:45 p.m.: For the second time since its reopening on Wed., July 14, dozens of protesters surrounded…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | In a setback for opponents of the city’s Chinatown mega-jail plan, an appellate court has reversed a lower court’s decision…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Christopher Marte, a native Lower East Sider and community activist, won the nod of the Downtown Independent Democrats for City…