In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...
Former HFZ Capital exec Nir Meir was denied a significant bail reduction and will remain in Rikers Island jail unless he can ...
The team behind the modern Peruvian Williamsburg restaurant Llama Inn is opening another spot this month. Papa San is a ...
Steve Vorrath, 30, and 34-year-old Marcel George Urban, both of Texas, were arrested and charged with possession of a stolen ...
Last week, President Trump signed into law the Laken Riley Act, which requires the attorney general to detain any non-citizen ...
As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.
State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.