A White Man's Guide to Rikers Island transports the audience from the privilege and prominence of a New Jersey golf club to the cacophony and brutality of New York's Rikers Island. Occasional ...

A WHITE MAN'S GUIDE TO RIKERS ISLAND runs through August 31, Thursday - Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm. The Producer's Club is located at 358 West 44thStreet between 8thand 9thAvenues.

The City Council was wrong to write a law purporting to ban solitary confinement on Rikers Island, as it would significantly ...

In this autobiographical two-man show, actor-writer Richard Roy reflects on the time he spent in prison after a lethal drunk-driving accident. Roy stars oppos ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century penal colony in the middle ...

Rikers Island is a humanitarian crisis, especially for those with severe mental illness. Instead of offering care, the jail isolates, neglects, and dehumanizes people who need treatment — not ...

Author Mark Goldsmith joins MetroFocus to discuss his new book “From Madison Avenue to Rikers Island: The Making of a Social Entrepreneur." ...

The widow of a man who became the first person to die on Rikers Island this year is demanding answers from the Department of Correction.

The death toll at Rikers Island jumped to seven this year with two men dying at the notorious jail Friday, officials said.

On a recent trip to Rikers Island, a small group of volunteers visited two dorm-style buildings to register eligible voters.

One 66-year-old man awaiting trial on an attempted murder charge, Bernard Derr, has cycled between Rikers and state forensic psychiatric hospitals for 15 years.

The post One Man’s Year on Rikers Exposes Limits of Mental Health Reforms appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News. Alex Rotar speaks in a Rikers Island meeting room about his mental health struggles.