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Activists Hold Jail Reform Rally In Washington Square Park
NY1
“So often we hear the horrible stories of what goes on in Riker’s island and the New York City Department of Correction,” said Chaplain Dr. Victoria Phillips, a social justice activist [with the Mental Health Project of UJC]. “But we don’t truly hear the names of loved ones who lose their lives in those conditions, those horrible, barbaric conditions that they’re often placed in.”Massive Changes Could be Ahead for NYC’s Messiest and Notorious Jail
The Root
"NYC Jails Action Coalition [co-founded by our Mental Health Project] held a rally after the recent deaths of two detainees at Rikers Island."Solitary Confinement Survivors Rally Support for Proposed Federal Ban
Truth Out
"Litwok did not die. She was released in 2014 and returned to New York City where she joined the Jails Action Coalition [co-organized by the MHP], a local advocacy group fighting to improve conditions in New York’s notorious Rikers Island."‘Enough is Enough:’ City Hall Rallygoers Rail Against Rising Death Toll at Rikers Island
AM NY
“Enough is enough. We all have jobs and lives to live. We don’t want to be out here screaming. We don’t want to have to galvanize emergency situations,” Chaplain Dr. Victoria A. Phillips (Dr. V) [of the Mental Health Project of the UJC] said. “We do it because if we don’t do it, who’s going to do it? I don’t see an elected official.”Jails Abolitionists Rally In Manhattan
Mott Haven Herald
"Advocacy groups Jails Action Coalition and HALT Solitary Confinement partnered to organize the protest, in response to the death of a Rikers inmate Willam Johnstone, who was 47. It was the sixth time this year a Rikers inmate has died in custody."Walls Are Closing in on City Control of Rikers Island as Push for Federal Receivership Continues
AM NY
"Advocates, family members, and former inmates went as far as to call the jail a death camp during a protest that took place on Foley Square in Lower Manhattan on July 18...organized by the Jails Action Coalition."Contact
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