Press Release

07 Nov

Posted at 21:09h in Press Release

October 13, 2016 First documentary to focus exclusively on people who have survived the nightmare of incarceration at Rikers Island Jail Produced by Award-winning Brick City TV producers Marc Levin and Mark Benjamin, with producer Rolake Bamgbose Executive Producer: Judy Doctoroff O'Neill, Public Square Media Rikers Island is New York City’s largest jail. It has also been ranked as one of the ten worst jails in America. So, says journalist Bill Moyers, if you want to understand the country’s incarceration crisis, start at the island jail in New York’s East River – just across...

07 Nov

Posted at 21:04h in Press Release

1) What is Rikers and what leads to incarceration there instead of one of the prisons in upstate New York? Rikers Island is New York City’s largest jail. It’s situated right there in New York’s East River – you can easily see it when you land on the main runway at LaGuardia Airport. It’s within sight of the Empire State Building – so close and yet so far from most of our daily lives. It’s a jail, not a prison, so essentially it’s a vast holding pen. Get arrested and you’ll...