Justice
Prison Guards Get Light Sentences For Sex Abuse
Kelly Virella |
New York State prison guards who break the law by having sex with an inmate often receive favorable treatment by juries and light sentences from judges.
Government
Bike Lane Battle: Role Of Senator's Wife, Ex-DOT Boss, Unclear
Jake Mooney |
Iris Weinshall is not the only critic of the city’s bike lane on Prospect Park West. She’s just the only who used to build bike lanes and happens to be married to a U.S. senator.
Justice
The Enforcement Of New York's Prison Sex Law
Kelly Virella |
DOCS says that misunderstandings about pat-frisks might explain some of the sexual misconduct allegations its inmates have made against guards. Some evidence suggests, however, that the problems in New York’s female prisons are deeper than that.
Justice
Altering A Prison's Sexual Chemistry
Kelly Virella |
For at least 35 years, New York State legal advocates, prison officials and unions have wrestled over how to protect female inmates from sexual abuse when male officers guard them.
Justice
Love In A Time Of Incarceration
Kelly Virella |
In 1999, an officer and an inmate at Manhattan’s Bayview Correctional Facility fell in love and started having sex, with consequences that reverberate today.
Activism and Volunteerism
Male Guards, Female Inmates And Sexual Abuse In NYS Prisons
Kelly Virella |
Several New York State prisons ranked high in a recent federal survey of inmates reporting staff sexual abuse. A City Limits investigation finds that sexual misconduct in New York’s prisons eludes stereotypes—and, sometimes, detection.
Economy
Sex Abuse Blamed On A Few Officers, Advocates Say
Kelly Virella |
In this month’s issue of City Limits magazine, we investigate staff sexual abuse of female inmates in state prisons. In this chapter, a look at the prison officers implicated in allegations of abuse.
Bronx
Senate, Assembly Resist Cuomo Cuts To Services
Jarrett Murphy |
Legislators want to restore many human services that Gov. Cuomo proposed cutting. But the Senate and Assembly still differ by tens of millions of dollars on social funding, and some programs still face elimination.
Economy
Battling Iran's Government … From New York
Arturo Conde |
Activists in New York are playing a role in the democratic surge sweeping the Middle East. While technology’s part of the story, local advocates say, human networks are what really matters.
ARTS and CULTURE
Deceased, Return To Sender: Writing To The Triangle Victims
Jonathan Vit |
As the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire approaches, one artist captured the tragedy’s scale by sending letters to the dead.
