According to the amicus brief, the DOC has failed to address the chronic violence, mismanagement, and human rights abuses at ...

As her fellow correction officers applauded, Shamika Mitchell, 37, walked out of the hospital after six days spent recovering ...

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was ...

As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

which was created for the notorious prison at New York’s Rikers Island, a facility that has has proven increasingly deadly as it has become disastrously overcrowded. Advocates for reform have ...

Instead, her canvas — entitled “For the Women’s House” and installed at the prison in January 1972 ... specifically within Rikers Island, which New York City is required by law to ...

On a recent episode of Loose Women, the 36-year-old dazzled viewers ... Alternatively, you can copy Frankie Bridge’s River Island look here.

Seven women incarcerated in Oklahoma have filed for ... Lisa Moss spent 34 years in prison before being released under the Oklahoma Survivors' Act. She was 24 years old when the offense happened.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in female categories of sports. The order provides guidance, regulations and legal ...

The directive specifically mandates that “males are not detained in women’s prisons” and restricts the use of federal funds for gender-affirming medical care within the prison system.

An Island man who used to live in Cornwall but is now serving six years in a federal penitentiary for sex crimes against a minor will have to stay in prison as he waits for his case to proceed ...