Human rights advocates took part in an 18-hour day of action Thursday as they seek the closure of Rikers Island.
The length of the demonstration posed significance for the organizers, as they held one hour of action for every lost life inside a city jail this year.
Members of the Jails Action Coalition, #HALTsolitary Campaign, Freedom Agenda, VOCAL-NY, and more set out faux body bags along with the names of those who have perished while imprisoned. Organizers claimed that about 1,000 inmates on the penal island suffer from mental illness, making the DOC facility a caretaker for mental health.Photo by Dean Moses“We know that about 20% of people who are there over a thousand people who are there right now are suffering from severe mental illness.
Tamara Carter recounted what she understands happened when her son, Brandon Rodriguez, hanged himself inside his cell in August 2021. The still devastated mother poured her heart out over the tragic death.Protesters demanded that Rikers Island be closed.“He was on Rikers for six days and now he’s gone forever. Thirty-four moms are now in the same amount of pain that I am in. I am only in my 15th month of supposedly healing. I don’t know what that is because it hasn’t started,” Carter sobbed.
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