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, [...]
Jan
2022
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 (SMccann@ndsny.org) (NEW YORK, NY) – 17 legislators issued an open letter [...]
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 (rhaskins@legal-aid.org) Sam McCann, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (SMccann@ndsny.org) Sarah Duggan, Brooklyn [...]
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 (SMccann@ndsny.org) ***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 (SMccann@ndsny.org) (NEW YORK, NY) – 14 legislators issued [...]
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
Sep
2021
Amid Jail Crisis, City and State Elected Officials to Visit Rikers Island, Demand Immediate Decarceration
***MEDIA ADVISORY*** Contact: Sam McCann, Neighborhood Defender Service, smccann@ndsny.org Redmond Haskins, The Legal Aid Society, RHaskins@legal-aid.org Emily Whitfield, The [...]
Aug
2021
NYC Defenders’ Statement on Death of Brandon Rodriguez in DOC Custody
August 13, 2021 Contact: Sam McCann, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (SMccann@ndsny.org) Sarah Duggan, Brooklyn Defender Services (SDuggan@bds.org) Emily [...]
May
2021
NDS’ Ariana Brill on the Devastating Impact of Covid on Incarcerated Students
The pandemic has had devastating effects on students incarcerated on Rikers Island. NDS Education Attorney Ariana Brill testified before [...]
Mar
2021
Following Bombshell Report on COVID Deaths on Rikers Island, Officials Must Address the Deadly Conditions That Persist in Jails and Prisons
Today, THE CITY reported on an unreleased Board of Correction (BOC) investigation into three deaths that occurred in Department of Correction (DOC) custody last year. The men died at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in conditions exacerbated by a series of DOC failures, the report shows