Webinar on Rikers Island and Mental Health: Data, Lived Experience, and Community-Based Alternatives.  

Join us next Thursday, January 15th, at 1 pm for a webinar via Zoom with the Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay titled, Rikers Island and Mental Health: Data, Lived Experience, and Community-Based Alternatives.

This webinar will discuss our November 2025 report, Rikers Island and Mental Health: Pathways Toward Community-Based Diversion and Jail Population Reduction, which identifies a 15-point plan to create a more effective and humane path forward to reduce the jail population and shut down Rikers.

RSVP here to join us on Thursday, January 15th at 1pm.

This one-hour session will cover:

• Updated data on the nature & scale of mental health needs among people incarcerated at Rikers
• First-person accounts that reveal the human impact of inadequate mental health care while detained
• Key policy recommendations, including a 15-point plan to strengthen community treatment and reduce unnecessary detention.

The session will include Q&A, and we encourage attendees to submit questions in advance via the RSVP form!

If you have any questions about the Rikers Island and Mental Health webinar or report, please contact Yonah at Yonah@katalcenter.org.