Rikers Island Transferees Now Held in Maximum Security Prison Where Drinking Water Tastes Like Sewage
Women, trans and nonbinary people are being taken off Rikers only to be moved upstate to bad conditions.
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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…
20 on Hunger Strike and 14 Arrested: The Struggle to End ICE Detention in North Jersey Continues
Amidst mounting public pressure for North Jersey Counties to end their contractual relationships with ICE, the agency has been moving detainees at its whim.
Police and Prisons, What Are They Good For?
Last summer’s protests put police and prison abolition on the progressive agenda. Yet it remains difficult to imagine a…
Family vows to file a wrongful death lawsuit, demonstrators demand infamous jail be closed.