Editorial

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  October 06, 2026 Forbes

  Do People Ever Change? Finding A Job, Keeping It

  Joe Bankman is a professor at Stanford Law School and practicing psychologist. For the past two years he has been meeting with job training groups testing behavioral interventions for “high risk” youth, ex-offenders and welfare recipients.

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  October 07, 2026 The Village View

  David Rothenberg ─ Founder of The Fortune Society

  Sometimes an event happens that changes a life forever. For David Rothenberg, it was that night when he realized what his play said about real life for former prisoners.

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  April 13, 2026 Broadway World

  David Rothenberg Makes 54 Below Debut with NEVER TOO LATE in May

  The one-performance-only show on May 3 at 1pm will feature the Fortune Society founder's stand-up comedy debut, with influences from Joy Behar and Mort Sahl.

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  March 30, 2026 City and State

  THe 2026 Bronx Power 100

  90. Ronald Day
  Chief Operating Officer, The Fortune Society

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  February 20, 2026 Dwell

  Is Dignified Jail Design Even Possible?

  New York City’s $16 billion plan to close Rikers Island involves four smaller facilities that tout a more humane vision of carceral buildings. Some activists think that’s an oxymoron.

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  February 18, 2026 Center for NYC Affairs

  ‘Take a Leap of Faith And Build Your Wings On the Way Down’: What I Owe Stanley Richards

  In the unforgiving environment of New York City’s notorious correction facility on Rikers Island, I spent a transformative year, from 2009 to 2010, navigating the turbulent waters of incarceration.

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