The same blend of magnetism and relentlessness that made Aida Leon a successful drug dealer have made her Coney Island’s messiah of clean living. Can her small army of former addicts turned activists save the neighborhood too?
Two years after a judge ordered the city to help the mentally ill stay out of jail, Rikers Island is still the only place in New York where they’re guaranteed care.
See your tax dollars at war in this breakdown of the NYPD’s $700 million counterterrorism budget.
It’s been known as a training ground for activist attorneys since it was founded in 1983. Today, CUNY School of Law hosts a new struggle–pragmatism versus radicalism.
Everyone applauds the idea of treatment instead of jail. Will New York’s experiment with mental health courts follow drug courts’ success?
Are juvenile detention centers worth the price?
At 39, Colin Warner has spent more than half his life in jail–without committing a crime. But after 21 years of mistaken incarceration, justice may be almost as elusive as it was the first time around.
Kids who were once in Rikers make radio documentaries, hoping to keep other youth out of jail.
Why worry about the privatization of government services when you can cash in? Introducing the City Limits Index Fund, a portfolio of the hottest companies in the bureaucracy biz.
Big corporations and developers reap major subsidies from the city, but their service staffs make starvation wages. Now a wave of organizing campaigns is trying to change the equation.
