Tag: Brooklyn (NYC)

How Rikers Island Became New York’s Largest Mental Institution

A seemingly endless rotation between state forensic hospitals and city jails has meant that some mentally ill detainees stay in the system for years without ever standing trial.

He Was Wrongly Convicted of Killing Her Father. She Set Out to Free Him.

Karen Dannett hardly knew her father. But freeing the man imprisoned for killing him became a decades-long mission.