Chinatown residents have pushed back for years against the Manhattan “jailscraper,” which is part of the city’s plan to shut down Rikers Island
Collaborations between Designing Justice + Designing Spaces and the furniture firm Formr offer a new approach to transitional housing
Behind bars, pregnant women are ignored at best, abused and traumatized at worst
Organizers with Chinatown Art Brigade and Wing on Wo Project spoke to Prism about why the city’s plan to replace Rikers Island with four borough-based jails is a dangerous continuation of the carceral system.
Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn hosts “Torture Island,” a new exhibition by the Rikers Public Memory Project
A coalition of more than 80 organizations is ramping up its abolitionist campaign, urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to direct resources to supportive services
The ‘Flashlights’ archive from Jailhouse Lawyers Initiative features more than 300 letters, poems, interviews, and pieces of artwork from incarcerated legal advocates
The communication challenges prisons impose on incarcerated writers are now well understood, but what about the hurdles erected by the publishing industry?
Yolanda Johnson was detained in 2020 on a $20,000 bond, an extraordinary amount of money that left her with no sense of how or when she would be able to secure her freedom. She spent four months in Jefferson County Jail awaiting news on her court date until she
The violence against oppressed people in both Gaza and U.S. prisons is a direct result of imperialism and the brutal policing
PEN’s decades-old prison programming lacks the organization and infrastructure to effectively communicate with and pay incarcerated writers
Last week, approximately 200 incarcerated people began a hunger strike to protest the increasingly dangerous conditions at Rikers
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