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

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...

This exceptional live performance and conversation for Rikers Island, New York inmates was recorded on October 15th, 2024 and features tracks "Road I Came", "Troubadour of Troubled Souls", "Savior ...

HOUSTON — The search is on for a man who escaped custody in Waller County Thursday. The Waller County Sheriff's Office posted that at around 7 p.m., the man, identified as Salvador Saucedo ...

Yakima County, Wash. — A Yakima County jail inmate, just days away from his scheduled release, attempted to escape custody after being taken to a local hospital, police said. Kyle Andrew Barrett, who ...

Yakima police say a 35-year-old jail inmate who was three days away from release tried to escape after being taken to a local hospital. Kyle Andrew Barrett of Yakima, who was convicted of drug ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City ... correctional facilities in the US, inmates there await being shipped to a federal ...

The Department of Corrections is planning to open similar centers at other facilities on Rikers, according to a news release. “Having these resources available to them on-island will better ...

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...