Amid Rikers crisis, Bronx borough jail builders start design process
Brian McFadden has owned Bee’s Famous Barbershop on East 138th Street and Cypress Avenue for 29 years. His shop sits a few blocks away from where New York City plans…
Residents “thrive” at a Bronx reentry program
(Vaya aquí para leer una version en español.) At age…
Jail abolitionists rally in Manhattan
At a demonstration at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan today, dozens of family members of Rikers Island inmates stood in the pouring rain with activists, calling for “ending torture” and…
Rikers women prisoners lack hygiene necessities
Remember the toilet paper panic at the start of the pandemic – the fear of going weeks without T. P.? Think about life without sanitary napkins, soap or even basic…
Absenteeism charges at Rikers spur renewed push for federal takeover
Chronic absenteeism by correctional officers at Rikers Island, along with the reported deaths of 18 incarcerated people and 412 stabbings, has spurred a renewed push to turn the jail over…
Bill to end solitary confinement in city jails draws competing City Hall rallies
Bronxite Kalief Browder was only 22 when he died by suicide in 2015, after spending two years in solitary confinment at Rikers Island. He is a central figure in an…
Bronx elected officials remain divided over jail
On Oct. 17 the City Council voted overwhelmingly to back the de Blasio administration's historic proposal to replace the jails on Rikers Island with four borough-based jails, but two Bronx…
City Planning Commission votes yes on jail plan; Bronx member votes no
As the city fast tracks its plan for four borough-based jails to replace the dilapidated facilities on Rikers Island, the Bronx is definitely not in the house. The borough’s public…