Cops & Their Snitches
How law enforcement’s over-reliance on confidential informants further corrodes the criminal justice system.
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Jail & Prison
A Donald Trump acolyte’s race-baiting campaign shows that he learned a thing or two from his mentor.
Immigrants on Hunger Strike at Buffalo Federal Detention Facility Speak Out, Assert Rights
Listen to a first-hand account of what’s going on inside the prison in Batavia, New York, where immigrants are held in detention.
Women, trans and nonbinary people are being taken off Rikers only to be moved upstate to bad conditions.
Twenty-three Years Later: Anthony Sims’ Murder Conviction Looks Shaky After Star Witness Stumbles
Although Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez regularly touts his office as a “national model” for redressing the office’s own…
Indy Radio, Rikers Edition: Suicide Crisis and Law-and-Order Judges
Click here to read “Why Rikers Has Unraveled” by The Indypendent News Hour Co-host Amba Guerguerian. Already in 2021,…
Incarcerated people and staffers describe how the penal colony became a site of unimaginable horrors in the past year.
On Saturday, demonstrators blocked the entrance to the Hudson County Correctional Facility for hours to get their message across.
Op-Ed: Rikers Island, a Longstanding Emergency That We Can End
The limelight is once again shining on the inhumane conditions at the notorious city jail. Two abolitionists explain how to shut down operations on the island without expanding NYC’s carceral system.
Brooklynites woke up last Thursday to find a newly erected, 14-foot-tall bust of George Floyd had been defaced overnight…