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Family Of 'Millionaire Madam' Starts Website To Raise Her Bail

Posted 05.07.2012

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The family of accused "millionaire madam" Anna Gristina have taken to the web to raise funds for her $2 million bail and to bring her home in time for...

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Epileptic Teen Who Killed Mom: 'I Don't Remember Anything'

Posted 04.14.2012

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Harold Wachtel, the epileptic 19-year-old charged with murdering his mother-- beloved La Guardia High School teacher, Pratt professor, and writer Kary...

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Inside The Reopened Brooklyn House Of Detention (PHOTOS)

Posted 02.06.2012

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After years of debate, a lawsuit, and another lawsuit, the Brooklyn House of Detention is slated to reopen next week. The facility closed in 2003 ...

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Rikers Island -- Last Stop on the New York City School-to-Prison Pipeline

Alan Singer | Posted 04.04.2012

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Alan Singer

The size of the prison system in the United States is horrific. Equally horrific are its rapid growth and the direct and indirect costs.

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Incarcerated Men on Rikers Island Cook Thanksgiving Meals For the Hungry

Anthony Papa | Posted 01.23.2012

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Anthony Papa

This Thanksgiving through an extraordinary program, men on Rikers Island are giving back to the city by cooking turkeys and fixings for over 800 New Yorkers in need.

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Mayor Bloomberg Signs Law To Stem Deportations From Rikers Island

Hugh Hogan | Posted 01.22.2012

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Hugh Hogan

The ICE Out of Rikers campaign should make New Yorkers proud to live in a city that is becoming a bit more welcoming to its 2.9 million immigrants.

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Top 10 Most Notorious Prisons In The U.S.

newsone.com | Posted 12.06.2011

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For many Americans, Sing Sing, Leavenworth and San Quentin are well-known code words for crime. Newsone has compiled a list of 10 notorious U.S. co...

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Astoria Characters: The Grave New Widow

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.20.2011

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Nancy Ruhling

It was Marion's second date with Michael M. Smith, and he asked her whether she wanted to see his cemetery. She found herself at the Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead, the city's oldest house that's still used as a private home.

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Do Not Pass Go; The Collateral Damage of Visiting Day

Akoshia Yoba | Posted 10.26.2011

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Akoshia Yoba

It's a perfect day. Blue skies dotted with cotton clouds and gentle breezes carry the unmistakable scent of the ocean. If I closed my eyes, I'd think I was in Martha's Vineyard. Instead, I see sunlight glinting off the barbed wire everywhere.

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NYC Beats Out San Francisco For Most Walkable City

Posted 09.20.2011

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Animal New York reports today that New York City has beat out San Francisco for the top rank on WalkScore.com, which grades places on walking distance...

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Rikers Makes Scantily Clad Female Visitors Cover Up

Posted 08.21.2011

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Here's a policy that won't go over well with the inmates. Rikers Island doesn't want to see lots of skin from its female visitors, reports the New Yor...

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Jail For Animal Rescuer Who Hoarded Cats In A U-Haul

Daily News | Posted 05.27.2012

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A 43-year-old New York City animal rescuer landed at Rikers Island Thursday, more than two years after he was arrested for animal cruelty for housing ...

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Penning A Rape Apology: A Guide For Important Men

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.18.2011

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Who would have thought there would ever be an issue in our modern lives that could possibly bring together the abundant talents of Bernard-Henri Levy and Ben Stein?

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Bloomberg To French Critics: 'If You Don’t Want to Do the Perp Walk, Don’t Do the Crime'

Posted 07.18.2011

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the NYPD's decision to give Dominique Strauss-Kahn the 'perp walk', according to The New York Post. During a visit...

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IMF Chief On Suicide Watch In NY Jail

AP | CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 07.18.2011

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NEW YORK -- The maid came from one of the world's poorest countries to the U.S., working to support the teen daughter she raised alone. The penthouse ...

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Teacher Released From Rikers On $100K Bail After Machine Gun Threat

Posted 06.04.2011

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Sabrina Milo was released from Riker's Island last night after meeting $100,000 dollars bail, WABC reports. Milo, an art teacher at Ft. Hamilton Hig...

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'Fresh Start' Program Teaches Men About Culinary Arts and Parenting

Anthony Papa | Posted 06.01.2011

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Anthony Papa

The U.S. unemployment rate for formerly incarcerated individuals is 60 percent. For Fresh Start grads, that rate drops to 29 percent at one year after their release.

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Astoria Characters: The Nun of God

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 06.05.2011

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Nancy Ruhling

Being a Rikers chaplain is much more than a job to Sister Margaret. What she offers inmates is simple -- love with no toughness or any other strings attached.

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Inmates Bake Bread For Entire NYC Prison Population

AP | By VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- Each morning, and again in the afternoon, the blades of three bread-slicing machines are counted carefully. Only then does the bakery let ...

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Astoria Characters: The Jailhouse Thespian

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nancy Ruhling

"Do you like cats?" That's Lauren Shpall's greeting when she opens the front door, one ebony and one ivory feline at her feet.

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Lil Wayne Released From Rikers

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Lil Wayne was freed from jail Thursday after serving eight months in a gun case, emerging with a hot new album, well-wishes from a former...

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No Pudding for You

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alan Singer

Prisoners do not have much of a lobby and earn little public sympathy, so when the multi-billionaire Mayor cuts supposed frills out of their daily food ration it draws a laugh and no public outcry.

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James Patterson Books, National Geographic Prisoners' Favorites On Rikers Island

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Count of Monte Cristo? Nope. The life story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter? Nope. The most popular books among prisoners at Rikers Island aren't es...

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Lil Wayne Lands Observation Aide For Suicide Watch Gig In Prison

inmate observation aide for suicide watch | By Wil Cruz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lil Wayne has had an unlikely "Rebirth" in jail - helping fellow inmates on suicide watch. The "Lollipop" rapper, who was locked up on a gun charge l...

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Prison Brawl At Rikers: 12 Guards And 20 Inmates Hurt

nypost.com | JAMIE SCHRAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rikers guards and inmates last night rumbled in a wild brawl triggered by some prisoners' refusal to go back in their cells. Corrections Department s...

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