BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Five years ago, Christopher Marte helped them out. Now they’re returning the favor. On June 6, tenants of 83-85 Bowery…
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BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday announced the jail sentence of a former Department of Correction captain for issuing…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Two concerned councilmembers are calling on the city to move female detainees currently held at a jail facility on Rikers Island…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Artists Kit-Yin Snyder and Richard Haas were shocked to learn last year that their installations outside of the Manhattan Detention Complex…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Chinatown community members and advocates gathered outside the Municipal Building on Monday morning before heading to their court appearance — but…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Ten people were arrested — including two political candidates — Wednesday morning outside the Manhattan Detention Complex after more than 20…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Armed with posters, megaphones and boxes of Dunkin doughnuts in hand, community members from across Lower Manhattan gathered at the break…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | “While most Chinatown businesses focus on food, health and medicine, this Chinatown dig specializes in mass incarceration,” activist and comedian says…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | The protesters’ demands are pretty simple: No new jails! It’s actually the same thing that Eric Adams said almost a year…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | In a setback for opponents of the city’s Chinatown mega-jail plan, an appellate court has reversed a lower court’s decision…