Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

New York State Fails to Provide Oversight of Jails and Prison
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
21 Jun 2024
🖨️ Print Article

Black Agenda Radio · New York State Fails to Provide Oversight of Jails and Prison

The New York State Assembly wrapped up the 2024 legislative session without final passage of bipartisan legislation to expand and strengthen the State Commission of Correction. The measure would increase jail oversight and address the ongoing crises at local jails across the state, including the notorious and deadly Rikers Island Jail Complex. Melanie Dominguez is the lead community organizer with the Katal Center. She joins us from New York City to explain why this legislation is needed.

Rikers Island
New York City
Jail

Related Podcasts

BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Report June 19, 2026
19 June 2026
In this week’s segment, we discuss the increase in racist mob violence against Black and brown immigrants in Britain.
Rent rally
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Rent Regulation and the Housing Crisis for Black New Yorkers
19 June 2026
Many apartments in New York City are protected by rent regulations which determine how much rent can be charged and how much increases, if any, can
BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio February 6, 2026
06 February 2026
In this week’s segment, we analyze the first month of Zohran Mamdani’s administration as mayor of New York City.

More Stories


  • Letters from Our Readers
    BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
    Letters from Our Readers
    25 Nov 2020
    This week the lives of the incarcerated, Susan Rice’s bid to be Secretary of State, and the incoming administrators of the empire were on your minds.
  • BAR Book Forum: Lavelle Porter’s “The Blackademic Life”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Lavelle Porter’s “The Blackademic Life”
    25 Nov 2020
    Despite academia’s inherent racism, black scholars have figured out ways to work within these institutions.
  • BAR Book Forum: Erin Manning’s “For a Pragmatics of the Useless”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Erin Manning’s “For a Pragmatics of the Useless”
    25 Nov 2020
    Schizoanalysis opens up new alliances (approximations) in the uneasy overlaps of neurodiversity and black life.
  • Alexander Hamilton: An American Slave-Master 
    Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
    Alexander Hamilton: An American Slave-Master 
    25 Nov 2020
    The Broadway show is a fiction and bamboozlement: Hamilton was a depraved enslaver of people, just like most of the Founders of the White Settler State.
  • Our Vaccine Infrastructure Needs a Radical Overhaul
    by Ravi Gupta
    Our Vaccine Infrastructure Needs a Radical Overhaul
    25 Nov 2020
    Public health departments will be hard-pressed to overcome existing racial and class disparities in health care and to address to structural racism.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us