While running to be New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city’s jail population.
Now, as he prepares to take office in just over a month and a half, a coalition of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, family members and advocates are demanding that Mamdani make good on those promises — and go even further.
Members of the Jails Action Coalition and the #HALTsolitary Campaign on Thursday released a comprehensive “Blueprint” outlining a series of sweeping reforms they say are necessary to end what they describe as a “humanitarian catastrophe” inside city jails…