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Dining
May 23, 2012
Little Pepper: Eat Heat
A favorite Sichuan place brings its fire to a new nabe
Blogs
May 22, 2012
Edward Gavin, Former City Jails Official, Says Child Welfare Authorities Should Investigate Teen Facility
In the wake of a Village Voice report on violence at a troubled city jail, city and state child welfare authorities should investigate whether adolescents are being abused there, a former high ranking Correction Department official says. "I'm not just talking about the Administration for Children ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2012
This Week in the Voice: Rikers Violence, Out of Control
This week in the Voice, out today: Graham Rayman has obtained photos of Rikers inmates with severe knife wounds and beatings to the face, neck, and arms, writing: "Four years ago, the Voice first wrote about the violence at Rikers, which was not only condoned but also promoted by jail officials in a ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2011
Is It Raining? Handy Website Will Tell You!
Are you somewhere with no windows right now? Like an office, or maybe solitary confinement in Rikers? Do you have to go outside soon, and are unsure of what shoes or outerwear to throw on? We can help you.
Blogs
October 7, 2011
Q&A: Tragedy Khadafi On Growing Up In Queensbridge, How Jail Has Changed, And Reaching The Kids In The Projects
Tragedy Khadafi is one of the last of a dying breed. Lucky for us, he dies harder than Bruce Willis. Even at 14, he was putting out music—most notably a song with DJ Hot Day called "Go Queensbridge" that caught the attention of Juice Crew leader Marley Marl, who put the young Tragedy down with ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2011
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Moving to Undisclosed New Location
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the IMF accused of the sexual assault of a housekeeper at the Sofitel New York, is reportedly moving from the temporary apartment building at 71 Broadway where he'd been staying since he was released from Rikers on Friday. While Justice ... More >>
Blogs
November 20, 2010
Mayor Bloomberg Cutting Carbs, Pudding in Jail
Prisoners at Rikers Island will eat less thanks to Michael Bloomberg's budget cuts, which are now coming for carbohydrates. Instead of eight slices of whole wheat bread every day, inmates will get six as part of a $1.6 billion budget adjustment proposed this week, the Daily News is reporting. ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2010
Week In Review: We Also Accept Your Future Apology In Advance
Everybody just stop yelling, OK? Photo by Daniel Snyder.In the week we talked about Odd Future, kidnapping and murder, and why we sometimes like the things that repel us, we also saw the group live--alongside every other music critic in the city. They struck a weird balance to the other big r ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2010
Lil Wayne Is Officially A Free Man
And like that, the rapper most loved by former and current United States presidents is finally out of jail, eight months after he went into Rikers on felony gun charges. "You guys waiting for that jackass?" a Rikers guard asked the Rolling Stone reporter that had staked out the jail this morning. ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2010
Lil Wayne Bids the Internet a Temporary Farewell
Yesterday, Lil Wayne asked his fans to stop sending him the hundreds of pieces of mail he gets per day, since he can no longer write back. (A violation of jail rules back in May landed him in solitary, where he'll remain until his release from Rikers in November.) And now, today, he's posted his f ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2010
Pervy Rabbi Tricks Traif With Kosher Prison Meals
Feels like the New York Post missed a great headline in this one: a Rabbi housed on Rikers Island stopped eating not because he wasn't being served Kosher meals, but because the meals weren't certified by a Rabbi of his choice...
Blogs
August 16, 2010
The Sad List of Lil Wayne's Prison Provisions
TMZ.comVia TMZ, chief ghouls of this particular game: 20 $.44 US postage stamps; 20 envelopes; 10 Nacho Cheese Doritos; 5 Cool Ranch Doritos; 5 Hershey Bars; 5 Hall's; 10 Ruffles; 2 "chocolate chip"; 2 Kool-Aid Punch, 6 Oz. each; 2 Kool-Aid Cherry; 1 "VISTACHEWYCHOCHIPS"; 50 Sugar in Raw; 5 R ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2010
Week in Review: Sign of Victory
One of these dudes is noticeably less enthusiastic than all the other dudes. Photo by Nate "Igor" SmithIn the week we interviewed an actual fitness instructor about the theoretical plausibility of exercising to Sleigh Bells, we also penned a Twitter-based ode to Erykah Badu's habitual latenes ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2010
Lil Wayne: The Rikers Island Prison Rap
The heartbreaking genesis of this song? Lil Wayne heard his protégé Drake's collaboration with Jay-Z, "Light Up," over the radio in his cell in Rikers, where he's serving a year and day on weapons charges. Once the center of the rap universe, Wayne was left a spectator. But not for long--a day l ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
Lil Wayne Facing Potentially Serious Consequences Over Jail Contraband
As we reported on Tuesday, Lil Wayne was caught this week at Rikers in possession of various illegal electronics--in this case, headphones, a charger, and, eventually, the MP3 player to which they belonged. Our source pegged the crime as an infraction--possession of contraband--but had no wor ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2010
Gucci Mane Is A Free Man
Even as fellow famous incarcerated rapper Lil Wayne faces disciplinary action today at Rikers for violating prison rules regarding possession of unauthorized electronics, Atlanta's Gucci Mane strolled out the front door of Georgia's Fulton County Jail this morning, a free man. Outside the jai ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2010
Breaking: Lil Wayne Caught With Unauthorized Electronics in His Jail Cell [Updated]
Corrections sources are telling the Voice that rapper Lil Wayne was caught today at Rikers in possession of "unauthorized earphones and a charger" during a search. An investigation is underway to find the missing device (almost certainly an iPod or other kind of MP3 player) that goes with the ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2010
Results of Librarian Sex Survey about as Exciting as Librarians Actually Having Sex
Is that your card catalog or are you just happy to see me?Hold onto your library cards, peeps. Will Manley has released the results of the librarian sex survey that Wilson Library Bulletin refused to run in 1992 -- the one which he got fired over. The results are... less than scintillating. B ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2010
Sharon Jones On Her Rikers Island Prison Guard Days: "If Another Inmate Had Sang That Song To Me, I'd Have Punched Him In The Face"
Try and guess which song she's talking about. Fun eMusic Jukebox Jury piece by Michaelangelo Matos (they sit in her car, he plays a bunch of tunes, she sassily free-associates), particularly when they get into her oft-discussed stint as a Rikers guard:
Blogs
March 29, 2010
The Morning Ink: Monday, March 29th, 2010
So starts our morning news roundup. Today: the housing law in New York you're probably breaking right now. The hot ticket that is President Obama's Passover Seder. Lindsay Lohan's yayo "uh oh," a riot at Rikers, Christian Militia madmen, and more. Here's what's in the news this morning:
Blogs
March 2, 2010
Lil Wayne Goes to Jail Today, But At Least We Have This Young Money "Roger That" Video to Remember Him By
Here is the first of a reported nine videos Lil Wayne shot in front of various green screens before reporting to Rikers today. This time, they opted for a comic strip treatment--fitting for not just Wayne but Nicki Minaj, who is basically a walking comic book character anyway. A Rikers guard fille ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2010
Lil Wayne Is Probably Going to Rikers Island Today
Today Lil Wayne will finally enter a plea in a Manhattan courtroom stemming from a 2007 gun charge he caught in New York City. He's expected to start serving time at Rikers Island right away--"I just say I'm looking forward to it," the rapper told Rolling Stone. Maybe. Billboard quotes City D ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2009
Jail Guard Charged In Inmate Assaults
Prosecutors in the Bronx have indicted a correction officer for beating up two inmates and trying to cover up one of the incidents at jail housing teenage detainees. The case emerged from an broad investigation into problems at the Robert N. Davoren Center that started after the fatal 2008 beating ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2009
Woman Mistaken for a Man in City Jail Sues Over Her Ordeal
Jail guards somehow mistook a mother of four for a man and stuck her in an all-male holding area for two days, where inmates urinated on her shoes, exposed themselves to her and threatened her with rape, the Voice has learned. Joan Gonzalez, 43, of the Bronx, repeatedly pleaded with correcti ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2009
Starbucks Bombing Kid's Facebook Friends Talk About Fight Club, Sentencing
Acquaintances and schoolmates of arrested Starbucks bomber Kyle Shaw are conversing about him under a link to a Daily News article about the Fight Club-loving teen. The link to the article "Teen 'Fight Club' devotee and suspected Starbucks bomber Kyle Shaw roughed up at Rikers Island" was posted on ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2009
Rikers Inmate Dies of Trauma; Investigation Pending
If you followed Graham Rayman's series on suspicious (and sometimes fatal) beatdowns at Rikers Island, this story may interest you: a 60-year-old detained there for a Queens burglary has died after an altercation with guards. Clarence (or Clarnice) Mobley, "behaving erratically," assaulted a guard w ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2009
Family of Dead Inmate Confronted by Angry Correction Officers Outside Court
Simmering tensions between the family of a teenager beaten to death at Rikers Island and correction officers erupted today at the Bronx courthouse. As an arraignment for several inmates charged in the case ended, more than 30 correction officers confronted members of Christopher Ro ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2009
Rikers Fight Club: More Widespread Then The City Admits
Even as indictments came down for two jail guards accused of using teen inmates as enforcers, Correction Department officials sought to downplay the breadth of the problem.The indictments last month followed the October murder of teenager Christopher Robinson in the Rikers Island jail for young offe ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2009
Jail Guard Union Throws Party for Indicted Guards
Last Friday, the Voice has learned, the union for correction officers held a 10-hour fundraiser to benefit three members who were indicted two weeks ago for deputizing teen inmates as enforcers in a Rikers Island jail. In the fallout that has followed the murder of te ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2009
This Week in the Voice
Graham Rayman has been following the "Fight Club" cooked up by Rikers Island guards for a couple of years, and the Bronx D.A. has started dishing out charges. Inmates used and rewarded as enforcers, beatings arranged so as not to leave marks, victims intimidated into silence (and a few killed) -- t ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2009
More Coverage of Rikers Island "Fight Club" First Covered Here
In July 2007 Graham Rayman revealed in the Voice that guards at Rikers were deputizing inmates "to beat up other inmates," sometimes paying them with cigarettes, and that internal reports were played off and at least one whistleblower fired. "Young people tell me when they go in there, the culture i ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2009
3 Arrests in Inmate Killing Probed by Voice
You've seen the stories Voice reporter Graham Rayman has been writing about the October killing of Christopher Robinson on Rikers Island -- how the 18-year-old inmate was beaten to death under peculiar circumstances and how, after Rayman's continued probing, first one and then several Corrections ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2008
More Heads Roll in Wake of Rikers Jail Murder
You've seen the stories Voice reporter Graham Rayman has been writing about the October killing of Christopher Robinson on Rikers Island -- how the 18-year-old inmate was beaten to death under peculiar circumstances and how, after Rayman's continued probing, first one and then several Corrections ... More >>
Blogs
November 26, 2008
Rikers Death Forces Out High Jail Official
You've seen the stories Voice reporter Graham Rayman has been writing about the October killing of Christopher Robinson on Rikers Island -- how the 18-year-old inmate was beaten to death under peculiar circumstances and how, after Rayman's continued probing, first one and then several Corrections ... More >>
Blogs
November 20, 2008
Follow-Up: Grand Jury Will Hear Case of Teen Killed at Rikers
You've seen the stories Voice reporter Graham Rayman has been writing about the October killing of Christopher Robinson on Rikers Island -- how the 18-year-old inmate was beaten to death under peculiar circumstances and how, after Rayman's continued probing, first one and then several Corrections ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2008
Midday Mash-Up: Dolls, Death, Drunk, etc.
You've seen the stories Voice reporter Graham Rayman has been writing about the October killing of Christopher Robinson on Rikers Island -- how the 18-year-old inmate was beaten to death under peculiar circumstances and how, after Rayman's continued probing, first one and then several Corrections ... More >>
News
May 27, 2008
The Jail Interview Steven Morales Gave to Columbia Grads
You've seen the stories Voice reporter Graham Rayman has been writing about the October killing of Christopher Robinson on Rikers Island -- how the 18-year-old inmate was beaten to death under peculiar circumstances and how, after Rayman's continued probing, first one and then several Corrections ... More >>
News
March 4, 2008
Drug Counselor at Rikers Gets Busted for . . . Dope
Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'
Blogs
February 28, 2008
Correction Official: No Indication Counselor Brought Drugs to Rikers
Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'
Blogs
February 27, 2008
Top Rikers Drug Counselor Busted for Selling Heroin and Cocaine
Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'
Music
October 30, 2007
Shooting Star
Taking aim at Remy Ma
News
October 31, 2006
Who Killed Robert Konopka?
His psychotic Rikers cellmate—or the prison system itself?
News
April 4, 2006
Her Right to Be Obnoxious
Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned
News
April 19, 2005
Baby Madness
How one young woman's delusions cost her years of freedom
Film
September 17, 2002
Suffer the Children
The Conversions
Specials
January 16, 2001
Letters
The Conversions
Specials
December 26, 2000
Letters
The Conversions
News
December 19, 2000
Life on the Outside
After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined
Specials
August 15, 2000
Letters
After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined
News
July 11, 2000
Jailhouse Rock
A Christian Road Show Comes to Rikers
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