Abandoned

Children of Prisoners: Innocent and At Risk

Pat Nolan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics


Pat Nolan

Maintaining the child-parent relationship during a parent's incarceration improves a child's emotional development and their behavior, and will help keep him or her from following their parent to prison.

The Underground City on Governors Island

Nick Carr | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York


Nick Carr

Today, I finally got on the ferry and went out to Governors Island. Since January, Belgian archaeologists have been working strenuously to excavate the ruins of a former Governors Island hamlet called Goverthing.

Long Island's Empty Jail

Nick Carr | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York


Nick Carr

Whenever a film or TV show needs to film in a prison location, the go-to place to scout is a decommissioned jail at the Nassau County Correctional Facility.