Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in ...

From June 4-15, the 24th annual Tribeca Film festival played host to a catalogue of some of the year’s most anticipated ...

The notorious jail complex on Rikers Island is legally set to close by August 2027, but Mayor Adams is reporting reconsidering the plans while granting ICE permission to open an office inside (AP) ...

A federal judge in New York has taken the extraordinary step of seizing control of the city’s the troubled Rikers Island jail complex, one of the nation’s largest and most famous jails which ...

Some things are better off from a distance; the closer you get to them, the scarier they become. One of those things is prison. We love watching documentaries about them, and we dig shows that revolve ...

ICE is part of HSI. The Rikers Island person facility as seen from a departing flight from LaGuardia Airport on Dec. 10, 2022, in Queens, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

In 1971, Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) received her first public art commission. New York City offered the late artist a $3,000 grant to paint a mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island.

The line launches Catherine Gund’s Paint Me a Road Out of Here, a thought-provoking, if uneven, documentary that investigates the history of a mural the artist created for the Women’s House of ...

In the new documentary by Catherine Gund, Paint Me a Road Out of Here (2024), the prison lives up to its reputation as filthy, violent and corrupt. The painting is now at the Brooklyn Museum, on a ...

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers Island prison.

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island: Regie: Jon Alpert, Nina Rosenblum Mit Jon Alpert, Sean Bryan, Jackie, Eric Kane A look inside Rikers Island which is a rather unknown place in New York. Many ...

Shyne is opening up about the $50,000 Diddy gave him after the former Bad Boy artist served a 10-year prison sentence in connection with the 1999 nightclub shooting they both were involved in.