How Brutal Beatings on Rikers Island Were Hidden From Public View

How Brutal Beatings on Rikers Island Were Hidden From Public View

One man was paralyzed from the neck down. Another landed in a coma. Neither injury was documented properly in the New York City jail system awash in disorder. Rates of violence rose sharply in the Rikers Island jail complex last year as thousands of correction...
Taking the fight against jail and prison expansion on the offensive

Taking the fight against jail and prison expansion on the offensive

Added Taking the fight against jail and prison expansion on the offensive to the Prison Policy Blog. How a 5-year moratorium on prison and jail construction in Massachusetts could flip the script in the fight against jail and prison expansion. Originally published in...