Justice
A Years-Long Struggle For Prison Moms
Tiffany Walden |
Some women who give birth behind bars find new motivation to stay straight. Others continue to wrestle with drugs and the challenges of parenthood.
Justice
Prison Guards Get Light Sentences For Sex Abuse
Kelly Virella |
New York State prison guards who break the law by having sex with an inmate often receive favorable treatment by juries and light sentences from judges.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Zero Tolerance: NY Prison System Committed To Preventing Sex Abuse
Brian Fischer |
The commissioner of the state prison system responds to our investigation of sex abuse involving male staff and female inmates.
Justice
The Enforcement Of New York's Prison Sex Law
Kelly Virella |
DOCS says that misunderstandings about pat-frisks might explain some of the sexual misconduct allegations its inmates have made against guards. Some evidence suggests, however, that the problems in New York’s female prisons are deeper than that.
Justice
Altering A Prison's Sexual Chemistry
Kelly Virella |
For at least 35 years, New York State legal advocates, prison officials and unions have wrestled over how to protect female inmates from sexual abuse when male officers guard them.
Activism and Volunteerism
Male Guards, Female Inmates And Sexual Abuse In NYS Prisons
Kelly Virella |
Several New York State prisons ranked high in a recent federal survey of inmates reporting staff sexual abuse. A City Limits investigation finds that sexual misconduct in New York’s prisons eludes stereotypes—and, sometimes, detection.
News
DOJ: 4 NYS Prisons Among Nation's Most Sexually Abusive
Lauren Raheja |
New York State has four of the 11 prisons and jails found in a sample to have the highest rates of staff-inmate sexual misconduct.
Manhattan
Census Uncertainty For New York's Prisoners
Jarrett Murphy |
This week Maryland became the first state to say it will count prison inmates in their home towns when redrawing legislative districts. Will New York follow?
Bronx
Hep C In Prison: Scourge Finally Gets Health Review
Abigail Kramer |
Hepatitis and HIV are rampant in the state’s prisons. Rather than leaving the care of sick prisoners solely in the hands of corrections officials, a new law gives the Department of Health oversight, too.
Justice
Soldiers, Prisoners, Casualties—A Drug War's Characters
Sean Gardiner |
Just because the drug trade and the law enforcement crusade against it aren’t as obvious as they were in the past doesn’t mean drugs and the war against them have disappeared from New York.
