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At The Fortune Society, our leadership, staff, and participants have experienced the violence and chaos of Rikers Island firsthand, both as people who were incarcerated and as those who work to support and advocate for them.
READ MOREThe Fortune Society's CEO and President, Stanley Richards, discusses a federal judge's decision this week to take Rikers Island out of the City’s control and place the troubled institution under supervision by an outside official.
READ MOREThe New York State Alternatives to Incarceration (ATIs) and Reentry Coalition - a network of 14 organizations that serves more than 30,000 New Yorkers each year - is grateful to see baselined funding in the State’s final FY2026 budget at $31.4 million for ATIs and $11.56 million for reentry services.
READ MOREThe Fortune Society co-authored a statement with Legal Action Center.
READ MOREStanley Richards and Jeremy Travis penned a guest op-ed in the New York Daily News on public safety studies.
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