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December 05, 2016 The ChiefRikers documentary provides [incarcerated individual’s] view of harrowing existence in system
These are some of the voices from the jails of Rikers Island that are heard in a new documentary from journalist Bill Moyers, “Rikers,” that was screened Nov. 30 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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December 03, 2016 The New York Times
The scourge of racial bias in New York State’s prisons
The racism can be felt from the moment black inmates enter New York’s upstate prisons. One inmate, John Richard, reported that he was jumped at Clinton Correctional Facility by a guard who threatened to “serve up some black mashed potatoes with tomato sauce.”
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November 10, 2016 Times Ledger
New study shows Sandy exacerbated mental health and drug use issues
Kenneth Brown did not think the projections for Sandy could be true. As he visited a friend in the Rockaways on the weekend of Oct. 29, 2012, he said he did not imagine what the following weeks of his life would entail when the hurricane hit the city, causing significant damage along the peninsula.
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November 07, 2016 Jezebel
This probably will end badly
Earlier this year, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito formed an independent commission to determine whether the dilapidated and violent city jail on Rikers Island should (and could) be shut down. Now, Politico New York reports, the vultures are circling: real estate developers like Related Companies have expressed an interest in the site.
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October 27, 2016 The Washington Post
‘Invisible punishment’ hits [formerly incarcerated] people for life; DOJ, HUD fight blanket rental bias
There’s been a lot of bipartisan talk lately about criminal justice reform. But action is slow. Too slow for Pedro Collazo, dangling in a web of collateral consequences.
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