Hoping to reduce fights, prevent suicide and help inmates avoid returning to jail, New York is changing the way it evaluates new prisoners—and building a new jail. Advocates are split…
In 1999, an officer and an inmate at Manhattan’s Bayview Correctional Facility fell in love and started having sex, with consequences that reverberate today.
Concerns about the racial contours of city hiring have resurrected issues that bedeviled past mayors, but over which Mayor Bloomberg has largely avoided confrontation.
Ebone Ryals, a resident at the Towers for many decades, helps Janey and Letitia plant.
Photo by: Hannah Rappleye
A day at River Park Towers reveals a lot about what low-income New…
On a warm Saturday morning a few weeks ago, a group of older tenants at the River Park Towers in Morris Heights, a neighborhood in the South Bronx, set up…
Drugs dominate the list of the top 10 crimes leading to legal immigrants’ deportation. A new state panel would expedite the pardon of old or minor crimes.
In the lobby of STRIVE, an employment-training program in East Harlem, the messages are clear, stated in a bold, black font on posters that greet the overwhelmingly black and Latino…