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Hank Willis Thomas Turns the US Department of Justice Building Into a Canvas After Dark

Artist Hank Willis Thomas and think tank Incarceration Nations Network projected words by inmates onto the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C.
By Osman Can Yerebakan

How New York City Plans to Return $3.5 Million to Former Inmates

Currently, after 120 days, unclaimed commissary funds become part of the Police Property Payable Fund.
By Madina Toure

New York City Announces Plan to House Inmates According to Gender Identity

New York City is joining San Francisco in ensuring protections for transgender and gender non-conforming people.
By Madina Toure
Public defenders help ensure that the judicial system only puts the guilty behind bars.

NJ Politics Digest: Democratic Bill Hopes To Let Inmates Vote

By Steve Cronin
Inmates in New York State's prison system will be receiving free JP5 tablets starting in the summer of 2018.

All New York Inmates Will Have Free Tablet Computers by Summer 2018

By Madina Toure
Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, at Rikers Island.

NYC Mayor ‘Does Not See’ Rikers Island Closing in Less Than 10 Years

By Madina Toure
YORK, NY - OCTOBER 08: New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton speaks at a Swearing-In ceremony form police officers with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (L) at the Police Academy on October 8, 2015 in New York City. A total of seven hundred and fifty officers were sworn-in at the event and will take to the city streets following months more of training. Following concerns about excessive force, the New York Police Department recently launched a new program that will force all officers to document and review every physical encounter with the public. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Bill Bratton’s Prescient Warning on Inmate Release

By The Editors
A homeless person in Penn Station. (Photo: Spencer Platt for Getty Images)

Afternoon Bulletin: New Women’s Homeless Shelter, Inmates Trounce Harvard in Debate

By Stephanie Grella
A view of the entrance to the Rikers Island prison complex (

Kerik: New York City’s Glaring Lack of Leadership and Accountability on Jails

By Bernard B. Kerik
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