Rally for a CLOSE RIKERS Budget

🗓️ Friday, March 7, 9am
📍 City Hall

“Join us ahead of the City Council Criminal Justice Committee’s Preliminary Budget hearing to insist on a budget that supports the closure of Rikers by moving resources from the bloated Department of Correction to crucial community needs. NYC runs the most richly funded (and richly staffed) jail system in the country while consistently delivering the worst results. And yet this year the Mayor has plans to grow the Department of Correction’s inflated budget while cutting funding for alternatives to incarceration and re-entry services and refusing to scale up funding for housing and mental health treatment. This proposed budget is a recipe for keeping Rikers open. Elected leaders must utilize this year’s budget process to invest in community resources that will improve safety and reduce incarceration, and get Rikers closed. Read more about DOC’s budget, and how it can be reinvested in our communities.”