Is New York State on the brink of major criminal justice reform? As part of “Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America,” the multi-platform public media reporting initiative, Beth Fertig, a senior reporter for WNYC News who has been…
Building Foundations
FIRST DEGREE takes viewers inside the infamous Sing Sing maximum security prison and offers a unique window into a college behind bars that prevents released inmates from returning to prison.
One of the most notorious jails in the country is located in the East River, right across from the Manhattan skyline. Rikers Island is New York City's largest correctional facility and the abuse and corruption that runs rampant within its…
Founded by the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Stargate Theatre Company immerses court-involved youth in the theater arts as a mechanism for coping with and overcoming negative factors in their lives. In this film, witness the company members as they compose,…
It’s a phenomenon that experts call the “school-to-prison pipeline” and that actor and activist Anna Deavere Smith calls “Notes from the Field: Doing Time In School.” As part of our “Chasing The Dream” series, we take you to a distinguished…
Redeem-Her’s transitional house was launched in 2007 by a former inmate. The non-profit provides support services to women coming out of incarceration and rehab.
At the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, which Pope Francis visited on Sunday, 80 percent of inmates haven’t yet been convicted of any crime. They are being held in this dangerous and overcrowded jail while awaiting trial, mostly because they…