Editorial

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  August 17, 2018 Welcome 2 The Bronx

  Opinion: Creating a More Just New York City

  Fortune Executive Vice President, Stanley Richards, writes about how closing the nine jails on Rikers and moving to smaller borough-based facilities – including in the Bronx – is a critical step towards a better justice system.

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  June 24, 2018 We Got Us Now

  Khalil’s Story – The Importance of Fatherhood

  Fortune Associate Vice President of Policy, Khalil A. Cumberbatch, discusses Father's Day and its importance in an era of mass incarceration, deportation, and criminalization.

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  June 01, 2018 New York Times

  Reform the Prison System

  In a letter to the editor, The Fortune Society's President and CEO, JoAnne Page, responds to the New York Times' May 21 editorial, “The Right Way to Fix the Prisons.”

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  April 14, 2018 New York Daily News

  Readers Sound Off on Police Discrimination, NYCHA and Night Owls

  Khalil A. Cumberbatch, our Associate Vice President of Policy, responds to NY Daily News' April 12 editorial, “What mass incarceration?” He argues that the article ignores the stark racial disparities that continue to exist in police actions.

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  March 29, 2018 City Limits

  CityViews: Government Can Close the Parole-to-Shelter Pipeline

  Every year, 26,000 people are released from prison on parole and come home to New York City, and many end up in the city's homeless shelters. Surely there’s a better way. The Fortune Society's President and CEO, JoAnne Page, discusses an alternative in this op-ed. 

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  February 01, 2018 The Marshall Project

  The Day ICE Knocked on My Door

  Fortune's current AVP of Policy, Khalil Cumberbatch, had completed his prison sentence years before. But then immigration officers came calling.

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