Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan. In one national survey, its inmates reported the highest rate of staff sexual abuse of any jail or prison in the country.
Our magazine’s May 2011 report on staff sexual abuse of women inmates in New York State prisons won a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the national Society of Professional Journalists.
A long subway ride from the Lower Manhattan epicenter of the Occupy phenomenon, community activists in one Brooklyn neighborhood are trying to translate the movement’s goals into local action.
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