Vidal Guzman News Today

Vidal Guzman, a former gang member, spent time incarcerated on Rikers Island as a teenager. Now, he spreads awareness about the conditions in New York City's biggest jail and campaigns for its closure.

Former prisoners recount being stabbed, witnessing suicides and the horrors of solitary confinement.

Former prisoners recount being stabbed, witnessing suicides and the horrors of solitary confinement.

Forest Hills: To Vidal Guzman re “Being imprisoned shouldn’t mean being enslaved” (op-ed, Jan. 17): For you to have been charged as an adult at the age of 16 tells me that you committed a very serious crime. For you to have been moved to another facility upstate and held in solitary confinement for 905 days there tells me that you were far from a model prisoner.

Activists kicked off a new push Monday to increase wages for incarcerated New Yorkers and improve working conditions in the state’s prison system.

Activists kicked off a new push Monday to increase wages for incarcerated New Yorkers and improve working conditions in the state’s prison system.