Prisons and Prisoners A Crisis With Serious Consequences for America’s Criminal Justice System Image produced by Lillian B. Lowengrub on behalf of the Anti-Poverty Network. If you’re a New Yorker on this rainy Wednesday, you’ll have more than the usual reason
Prisons and Prisoners The top stories of the week This week, the editors of The New York Times reported that overcrowding in New York City’s jails threatens the safety of inmates and staff, as well as the security
Prisons and Prisoners New York City Is Still a Blacklisted City for Ebola Take this seriously. Don’t put New York City back on the list. We don’t want to bring home the Ebola plague — though people around the country are well
Prisons and Prisoners Bramble of diseases that follow a pandemic in modern U.S. prisons If the pandemic known as “the great deadly virus” were to set in, New York City’s jails would come under siege as thousands of inmates, mostly nonviolent drug addicts,
