RESPONSE TO INACCURATE REPORTING ABOUT BAIL LAWS IN DENIRO BURGLARY CASE
RESPONSE TO INACCURATE REPORTING ABOUT BAIL LAWS IN DENIRO BURGLARY CASE NEW YORK, NY – News outlets’ frenzied [...]
Dec
2022
Dec
2022
PARENTS, ADVOCATES, AND ELECTED OFFICIALS RALLY TO DEMAND EQUITY AND JUSTICE FOR NEW YORK CITY FAMILIES
PARENTS, ADVOCATES, AND ELECTED OFFICIALS RALLY TO DEMAND EQUITY AND JUSTICE FOR NEW YORK CITY FAMILIES Advocates Call on [...]
Nov
2022
Joint NYC Defender Statement in Response to Mayor Adams’ Address on New York City’s Mental Health Crisis
(NEW YORK, NY) – The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Defender Services, The Bronx Defenders, New York County Defender Services, [...]
Nov
2022
Advocates and Impacted Families Renew Call for Family Miranda Rights Legislation After Uncovered ACS Report Reveals It Knew of Its Own Discriminatory Practices
Advocates and Impacted Families Renew Call for Family Miranda Rights Legislation After Uncovered ACS Report Reveals It Knew of [...]
Oct
2022
Joint Defender Statement in Response to Mayoral Summit on Criminal Justice
(NEW YORK, NY) – The Bronx Defenders, The Legal Aid Society, and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, organizations [...]
Jan
2022
NYC Defenders Demand that City Stop Recording Phone Calls Made by Incarcerated New Yorkers
(NEW YORK, NY) - The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Defender Services, The Bronx Defenders, New York County Defender Services, [...]
Dec
2021
NYC Defenders Statement on Death of William Brown, the 16th Person to Die in DOC Custody This Year
(NEW YORK, NY) – Brooklyn Defender Services, The Bronx Defenders, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, New York County Defender [...]
Oct
2021
Legislators Demand End to Transfer of Women and Transgender People Held on Rikers Pre-trial to Prison
Contact: Sam McCann, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem ([email protected]) (NEW YORK, NY) – 17 legislators issued an open letter [...]
Oct
2021
NDS’ Zainab Akbar Testifies On the Family Regulation System Before NYS Assembly
Zainab Akbar, Managing Attorney of NDS Harlem's Family Defense Practice, testified before the New York State Assembly on the [...]
Oct
2021
More than 70 Incarcerated Women and Transgender New Yorkers at Rikers Island Release Petition Protesting Transfers to Upstate Prisons
Contact: Redmond Haskins, The Legal Aid Society ([email protected]) Sam McCann, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem ([email protected]) Sarah Duggan, Brooklyn [...]
Oct
2021
NDS’ Danielle Jackson Testifies Before NY State Senate on Predatory Court Fees
NDS’ Danielle Jackson testified before the New York State Senate on the End Predatory Court Fees Act. She said [...]
Oct
2021
Legislators and Impacted People Demand That District Attorneys End Cash Bail Practices to Curb Rikers Crisis
Contact: Sam McCann, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem ([email protected]) ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** (NEW YORK, NY) – Legislators, public defenders, [...]
Oct
2021
14 Legislators Issue Letter to District Attorneys Demanding End to Bail Practices in Light of Rikers Crisis
October 5, 2021 Contact: Sam McCann, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem ([email protected]) (NEW YORK, NY) – 14 legislators issued [...]
Sep
2021
NYC Defenders’ Statement on Yet Another Death in DOC Custody
September 20, 2021 Contact: Sam McCann, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem ([email protected]) Sarah Duggan, Brooklyn Defender Services ([email protected]) Emily [...]
Sep
2021
Elected Officials Detail Illegal, Deadly Conditions Inside Rikers Island Following Visit
“It is impossible to overstate how dangerous - and ultimately deadly - the conditions facing New Yorkers on Rikers Island are. Quite simply: DOC is holding people in illegal conditions, denying New Yorkers their rights, and as a result people have died