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Advocates Host Town Hall To Discuss Mental Health, Incarceration
News 12
“The public health aspect is people with mental health conditions are not getting adequate care, especially in prison you're not gonna get that so we're trying to change that whole system,” said Marco Barrios, a representative from the Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project."US Prison Deaths Increase by 77% Since 2020, Study Reveals
HNGN
"NYC Jails Action Coalition [co-founded by the UJC Mental Health Project] held a press conference to speak about the conditions at Rikers Island after the death of Joshua Valles, who died on Saturday and is the third person to die in custody this year."
Mental Health, Legal System To Intersect At Neighborhood House
Riverdale Press
“I know there are lots of people in the community that already care about these issues,” said Ryan Acquaotta, the campaign coordinator for the Freedom Agenda..."It’s not just demanding more police, more weapons, more surveillance, more cages. We also need more housing, more treatment, more jobs, more health care and education.”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."Contact
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