Martha King
Martha W. King, senior program officer at the Revson Foundation, is former executive director of the New York City Board of Correction and continues to monitor prisons as a board officer of the Correctional Association of New York.
Contributions
Locked in a Vicious Cycle: How Past is Prologue at Rikers
Two new books detail the impossible burden of turning around the city’s jails.
What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You
The vacuum of knowledge and the persistence of violence in New York City’s jails
Improving Conditions on Rikers Island
Violence is endemic, but it is not immutable.