Prison Fellowship recently partnered with Hillsong NYC to bring its worship band inside Rikers Island Detention Center in New York City. The result was “amazing to see.”
By Grayson Pope
August 1, 2019
New York | Rikers Island
"For two minutes, I felt free."
By Emily Harris Greene
December 6, 2017
Angel Tree | New York | Rikers Island
Martha Ackerman and Stephanie Segel bring a message of hope to the incarcerated of New York's notorious jail, Rikers Island.
By Emily Andrews
June 2, 2017
Martha Ackerman | Rikers Island | Stephanie Segel
Earlier this week, Insider took you behind the walls on Rikers Island to December's Prison Fellowship Academy™y graduation.
Rikers Island is the main jail complex for New York City. On average the daily population is 10,000, making Rikers one of the world's largest correctional institutions.
By Emily Harris Greene
January 25, 2017
Kristi Reeter | New York | News 12 Brooklyn | News 12 The Bronx | Prison Fellowship Academy | Rikers IslandRikers Island is one of the last places you’d expect to hear stories of hope and forgiveness.
By Emily Harris Greene
January 23, 2017
New York | Rikers Island
It’s a simple childhood memory for many: a father and his children singing nursery rhymes and reading books together. A story on NextCity.org reminds us of those little moments taking place in many American homes right before bedtime—the kind of memories that stay close to our hearts forever.
By Emily Andrews
September 13, 2016
Library | New York | New York City | Reading | Rikers Island | Telestory | video conferencing
Remember the classic Coca-Cola ad from the 1970s? The one about teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony? The marketers knew they could touch a chord in people’s hearts about the power of music to promote peace, to unify.
That’s what young prisoners at New York’s Rikers Island—the nation’s second largest jail complex—are experiencing.
By Heidi Baumstark
July 6, 2016
Columbia University | Creating a Constructive Prison Culture | Hip Hop | music | New York | Rikers IslandIf there is someone who knows the criminal justice system – from both ends – it is Bernard Kerik. A one-time beat cop in New York City’s 14th Division, Kerik rose through the ranks to serve on Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s security detail in the early 1990s.
By Steve Rempe
November 5, 2013
Maryland | New York | Rikers IslandRikers Island – one of the most expensive addresses in all of New York City.
Park Avenue. Soho. Chelsea. Midtown.
Rikers Island?
When one thinks of exclusive addresses in New York City, the first thing that likely comes to mind is a penthouse overlooking Central Park, or perhaps an historic brownstone in a trendy part of town.
By Steve Rempe
October 24, 2013
incarceration rates | Justice Fellowship | New York City | Reentry | Rikers Island