“In 2010 when the Syracuse Post-Standard visited New York’s maximum-security prison in Auburn to report on Corcraft’s license plate franchise, one prisoner working on the assembly line “called out that working on the line is ‘slave labor.’”

City officials want to replace letter mail in city jails with scanned electronic messages. That’s inhumane, and adds to the misery New Yorkers already suffer on Rikers Island.

FASHION WEEK 2006 WAS OLD NEW YORK IN FULL EFFECT

ANNUAL BUDGET ANARCHY IN ALBANY IS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

Throwback Thursday with this banger from 2019.

NYPD to digitally encrypt radio transmissions journalists rely on to independently gather news as it is happening, making them and public dependent on police for information after the fact. Part 2 of 2

How a police scanner kick-started Black Lives Matter and why it matters now. Part 1 of 2.

The independent journalist and the duty to be fair, impartial and truthful.

“It's easy to forget after the high-living Sex-and-the-City years when champagne flowed in the gutters instead of blood, but the streets of New York can be merciless.”

The New York Forest Preserve includes the largest wilderness east of the Mississippi and is required by the State Constitution to be kept “Forever Wild.”

Snow is what you’re missing. Snow is what we got. The Free Lance is your snow connection. Let it snow.

The Supreme Court and the culture of police impunity its qualified immunity doctrine created is the real reason five cops felt they could kill Nichols on a public street, in front of cameras, and get away with it.

Police Censor-in-Chief Gets Big Promotion

I’m not your average journalist. Before becoming one, I spent 13 years in prison.