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Posts tagged as “Rikers Island”

Mayor’s community op-ed: Reading, writing, arithmetic — and mindful breathing and plant-based foods

BY ERIC ADAMS | This week, our children headed back to school for the first day of the new school year. School supplies have been…

Councilmembers push for female Rikers detainees to be moved to The Tombs

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Two concerned councilmembers are calling on the city to move female detainees currently held at a jail facility on Rikers Island…

Protesters decry Chinatown ‘megajail’ as Adams goes all in on disruptive project he vowed to oppose

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Armed with posters, megaphones and boxes of Dunkin doughnuts in hand, community members from across Lower Manhattan gathered at the break…

Is it possible to close Rikers without building a new jail in Chinatown?

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | “While most Chinatown businesses focus on food, health and medicine, this Chinatown dig specializes in mass incarceration,” activist and comedian says…

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