Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Es Tu Dinero, Decides Tú

Making Policy Public

Es Tu Dinero, Decides Tú

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

Break it Down!

Making Policy Public

Break it Down!

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Prison Profits: Who Pays The Price

City Studies

Prison Profits: Who Pays The Price

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.

Voice Recognition

Urban Investigations

Voice Recognition

Get Support in Housing Court

Making Policy Public

Get Support in Housing Court

Food Stamped

City Studies

Food Stamped

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

A Bet on Debt

City Studies

A Bet on Debt

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Whose Art?

City Studies

Whose Art?