Editor’s note: This interview was filmed on Dec. 1, 2022. A 19th person, Edgardo Mejia, died at Rikers on Sunday, Dec. 11.
19 people died on Rikers Island in 2022, making this the deadliest year in the jail’s history. New York public defender Olayemi Olurin joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the human rights crisis on Rikers Island.
Olayemi Olurin is a public defender and staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society and an analyst at the Law & Crime Network and The Hill’s Rising.
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…and the average kkkop or FBI agent or cia agent, that frame Blacks and falsely send to jail, can’t last one day in Rikers Island-THESE cowards are mentally weak
As a resident of nyc, I think the public is fine with Rikers since there is a lot of NIMBY people in the city and they hold a lot of power
What are "black & brown" new yorkers?
Sounds racist
Kalief Browder comes to mind and that's one of the saddest fucking stories I've ever heard that shit is literally on Jesus's level. Being locked up for a backpack u never stole and can't bail out for 800 bucks and fighting to stay alive , being in solitary confinement more than anyone and then committing suicide once your out after getting stabbed, that dude was a true warrior and I'll remember him forever. RIP BROWDER WARRIOR OF WARRIORS
Nobody cares so idk why this is even covered
Damm , slow that shit down ! The chick with that red fake hair , was talking so fast , can’t understand a damm thing she was saying !
Yep they call in sick to generate over time.
Isn’t AOC the representative for folks at Rikers?
Why should anyone care about these people?
Oh, I have an idea or should I say a fantasy…
How about not committing a crime and getting an education. If they can accomplish that, they won’t be in jail and have these problems.
I think you need to slow down the speed. I couldn't understand the presenter hardly at all. The woman, Olay, is talking so fast it sounds speeded up. I was very interested until they started talking.
Listening via my Grado headphones noise was irritating me – Olay's mic stand resonates ! I was searching all around me for the sound source, lol.
Olay is sharp fighting the 'good fight'. Yall remember the poor boy who was incarcerated, abused THEN released only to kill himself ? Pre-trial ! not even guilty !
This is nothing new. But THIS IS WHY people no longer have any respect for the law, the Police, or the Government.
That prison is plagued with corruption. I hear it all the time online. The stories for monetization 💰. The trauma is never documented
This vid with u and the bright pink ladies hair are great….
Oh my ill listen to you are pleasant… not lack luster but that other women annoys me… as to about over 400 peeps I know on Facebook
American prison system is jacked up. New slave breeding laboratories basically. No one cares all they care about is Brittany Greiners incarceration.
Great video
When is the international community going to call for regime change in the U.S for the way the prison population is treated.
Same kind of thing went on for year's and years in Phoenix, AZ. I don't know if it was ever fixed. The sheriff finally was charged then Trump pardoned him. God bless you!
FYI, Rikers is in the Bronx, not Queens, though Hazen Street bridge in Queens.
🤯🤑🥸Imagine how much money we could save if we just gave everybody a good start in life
Time to take responsability for your actions and stop blaming whitey for your criminality.