Video: Top Advocate Says Cuomo, De Blasio Both Can do More to Close Rikers By Jarrett Murphy | April 6, 2018   In the wake

‘Decarcerating America’ Is A Powerful Call For Reform By Martha Anne Toll | February 20, 2018   Criminalization is frequently America’s answer to social issues.

New reports recommends changes to parole in NY, US ASSOCIATED PRESS | January 29, 2018   ALBANY – Two new reports from Columbia University are raising

akeem browder and gabriel sayegh talk cuomo’s criminal justice reforms By CITY & STATE | JANUARY 8, 2018   Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a number of sweeping

City Takes First Step Towards Shuttering Jails on Rikers Island By Cindy Rodriguez | January 2, 2018   The de Blasio Administration said it will

Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund awards $22m in grants to activist groups and social programmes As well as backing arts-focused initiatives, the money will

Join us at Interference Archive for a critical look at Rikers Islands’ detention facilities, through the lens of both historic film and as well as

ALBANY, NY – Numbers from the Erie County Health Department show the opioid epidemic in the county could claim the lives of nearly 400 people

Opioid overdoses took 1,200 lives in North Carolina last year — part of an 800 percent increase since 1999 whose body count has now surpassed