With violent incidents on the rise throughout New York City’s jails, nowhere has the four-year spike been more pronounced than at the Brooklyn Detention Complex, according to a new report by the federal monitor of the city’s jails. The rate of use of force by Department of Correction staff against incarcerated individuals has more than tripled […]
Eye on Real Estate: You can walk from Boerum Hill to Brownsville on Bergen Street. What a fine stroll. There are pre-Civil War brick rowhouses, an industrial area that residents want to rezone, clusters of Romanesque Revival homes and elegant churches. You can walk this route in a single day if you aren’t an obsessive-photo […]
I am a mother, a Brooklyn resident, criminal justice advocate and former resident of Rikers Island. I currently live with my daughter a couple blocks away from the proposed Brooklyn community jail site. After being incarcerated on Rikers Island, I fully support closing the jail and building smaller, safer, and more humane borough-based facilities. If […]