Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

What You Need To Know About ACS

Making Policy Public

What You Need To Know About ACS

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Print From Cellblock to Your Block

In March 2017, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio pledged to close the Rikers Island jail complex within 10 years and introduced plans to build four new “borough-based” jails in the city. Who decides where jails get built? How do jails impact surrounding neighborhoods? What are the impacts of jails on the incarcerated, their families, and their communities?

In the spring of 2018, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Stephen Kwok and public high school students from Life Sciences Secondary School to investigate these questions.

Students created public art interventions, surveyed community members near the Manhattan Detention Complex, and interviewed key stakeholders working on the issue. This booklet is a guide to what they discovered.

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Public Access Design

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Seeking Sanctuary

Urban Investigations

Seeking Sanctuary

Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

Draw the line!

Technical Assistance

Draw the line!

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Change

City Studies

Making Change

Field Guide to Federalism

City Studies

Field Guide to Federalism

Bail's Set... What's Next?

Public Access Design

Bail's Set... What's Next?