Activists and family members of inmates marched to Rikers Island Saturday to protest what they say are inhumane conditions at the prison.
Organizers are calling on the city to shut down Rikers.
They're also demanding an end to solitary confinement and youth incarceration.
They say they condemn Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed reforms because they believe they ignore the structural violence against prisoners.
"Reforms like those only distract us from our goal, which is closing these institutions all together," said one protester. "We don't want to make it a little better so that more people can get thrown in jail and, like, rot away, but maybe in a little more socially acceptable way."
"Rikers Island needs to clean house, that what goes on in there will not be overseen and not, nobody is going to know what's going on," said another. "I think the reason why I came out here is because I never want to see this place again."
Protests against Rikers have intensified since the suicide of 20-year-old Kalief Browder.
Browder spent three years at Rikers for a crime he didn't commit.
While in prison, he was beaten and held in solitary confinement for more than 1,000 days.