From Solitary to Shackles on NYC’s Rikers Island
On Rikers Island, in a cell block for the jail’s most violent inmates, young men sit for hours, feet…
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Facing New Court Dates, Ramsey Orta Reflects on the Consequences of Exposing Police Brutality
“Yeah, I knew what I was recording, but I didn't think he was going to die.” This is how…
Tortured to Death in New York City
BETWEEN MAY 2010 and June 2013, Kalief Browder was held without trial–that's right, without trial–in one of the country's…
Prisoner Rights Advocates Slam Private Healthcare Provider Linked to Rikers Deaths
Calling for more oversight of healthcare delivery at local jails, a group of advocates rallied on the steps…
The Poor Man’s Lawyer: New Caseload Caps Give Public Defenders a Fighting Chance
As the judge read out the sentence, Jose Santiago and the public defense attorney he’d just met that day…
Cecily McMillan Released from Rikers, Reads Demands from Women Inmates
Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan became a symbol of the state’s crackdown against that movement when she was…