In 1994, the United Blood Nation recruited him to the Nine Trey Gangsters faction at the Rikers Island jail complex, and he became one of the first East Coast Blood gang members. McPhatter speaks ...

As her fellow correction officers applauded, Shamika Mitchell, 37, walked out of the hospital after six days spent recovering ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... the violent gang members — Crips, Bloods, Latin Kings, and the Folk Nation.

Vidal Guzman is a former member of the East Coast Bloods. He was incarcerated on Rikers Island when he was 16 and returned when he was 19. Guzman discusses the conditions inside the New York City ...

“While in the custody of Rikers Island Correctional Facility ... When I last visited him, I found him with blood spatter on his prison garb, possibly from IV's, clothes that had not been ...

By Priya Krishna Photographs by Brittainy Newman Priya Krishna and Brittainy Newman twice visited Rikers Island, where they were granted extensive access to a kitchen, its cooks and the detainees ...