The city’s Department of Correction has continued to struggle to provide re-entry services, educational programs, life skills training and other programs to detainees on Rikers Island a year after the agency cut a contract with half a dozen nonprofits and opted to provide the programming themselves.
Read MoreThe Adams administration late Monday announced that it planned to mostly restore nonprofit-provided programming for detainees on Rikers Island after the city attempted – and largely failed – to provide the programming itself following a budget cut ordered by the mayor last year.
Read MoreA little more than half a year after the Department of Correction cut a contract with several nonprofit service providers, two of those organizations have been asked to again provide programming to detainees on Rikers Island – and to do it for free.
Read MoreCEO and President of Fortune Society Stanley Richards recently sat down with the Eagle to discuss the organization’s legislative agenda, the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, the Department of Correction’s new commissioner as well as his goals as Fortune’s president.
Read MoreStanley Richards, who several years ago became the first formerly incarcerated man to serve as a top executive in the city’s Department of Correction, was this week named the next president and CEO of the Fortune Society.
Read MoreWith a little more than a week before the Department of Correction plans to sever its contracts with nearly half a dozen nonprofits that provide services to detainees on Rikers Island, elected officials, formerly incarcerated New Yorkers and top officials with the affected organizations called on the city to find new ways to save $17 million dollars.
Read MoreCity Councilmember Robert Holden recently introduced a bill that aims to bring back punitive segregation for young adults who commit repeated violent acts in the city’s jails.
Read More“What I saw was two realities,” said Stanley Richards, the former first deputy commissioner with the Department of Correction who now serves as the deputy chief executive officer of the Fortune Society, when reflecting on Rikers Island.
Read More“We have a moment in this city to ensure that the jails that we create reflect the values of humanity.”
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