Rikers Island
City Panel Likely To Recommend Closing New York City's Infamous Rikers Island Prison
Is Rikers Island Closing For Gentrification?

The New York City Council voted to close the jail.
by NewsOne Staff
03.30.20
Layleen Polanco
Family Of Black Trans Woman Who Died Speaks

Layleen Polanco was only 27 years old.
by NewsOne Staff
03.29.20
2016 American Justice Summit
NYC Will Pay For Kalief Browder's Life

He was wrongfully imprisoned.
by NewsOne Staff
03.27.20
Empty prison cell
Exonerated Brooklyn Man Advocates For Reading In Prisons

After spending 27 years behind bars for a crime that he didn’t commit, John Bunn is advocating for reading in…
by NewsOne Staff
09.16.18
City Panel Likely To Recommend Closing New York City's Infamous Rikers Island Prison
Inmate’s Death Spotlights Staff's Disregard For His Life

The New York City Board of Corrections is investigating an in-custody deaths that occurred at Rikers Island.
by Nigel Roberts
01.23.18
City Panel Likely To Recommend Closing New York City's Infamous Rikers Island Prison
First Jail To Close At Rikers Island

New York City will close its first jail on Rikers Island this summer as part of a 10-year plan to…
by Clarissa Hamlin
01.03.18
USA - Prisons - Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center at Rikers
Bronx Teen Avoids Same Fate As Kalief Browder

Pedro Hernandez, a Bronx teen who was wrongfully arrested for a crime that he didn't commit, was released from the…
08.02.17
2016 American Justice Summit
Bronx Street Renamed 'Kalief Browder Way'

The renaming recognizes the injustice to Browder and his role in shedding light on prison abuse of minors.
05.25.17
Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief...
The Case For Shuttering Rikers Before 10 Years

Criminal justice reform advocate Glenn Martin says there's too much at stake to wait a decade to close the notorious…
05.08.17
Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief...
New York Finally Stops Charging Young Teens As…

Now that New York has ceased charging 16-and 17-year-olds as adults, North Carolina remains the only state in the U.S.…
04.10.17
Rikers Island
Rikers Island Jail Complex Closing

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that the dilapidated and notorious Rikers Island jail complex will close,…
04.01.17
Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief...
Bill De Blasio Plans To Renovate Rikers Island

New York City's mayor ignores prison reform activists and plans renovation of controversial prison complex.
03.19.17
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