Snubbs On Spending 6 months in Solitary at Riker’s

Snubbs is a New York rapper with millions of views on YouTube, Spotify and SoundCloud and music featured on NBA 2k. This month, he talked about his experience at Riker’s and how solitary confinement shaped him into the person he is today. He was involved in one of New York’s biggest gang busts, but proved

CT civil rights attorney Paul Spinella on Radon poisoning at Garner prison

Imagine a government-run correctional system that housed its prisoners in a facility filled with a colorless, odorless and noxious gas that causes various life-threatening illnesses such as lung cancer. Imagine that after incarceration, inmates are given no notice that they are inhaling this noxious gas, until it is too late and cancer has set in.

Judge Jed Rakoff on Criminal Justice Reform, and how working withing a broken system affects his job

Jed Rakoff has been an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School since 1988, and has served since 1996 as a federal district judge for the Southern District of New York. Judge Rakoff earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1964, an M.Phil. from Oxford University in 1966, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in

Attorney Lee Merritt on Prison Reform, Dismantling the system from within

Lee Merritt is an American civil rights lawyer and activist, most known for his work on racial justice issues. He’s represented clients in high profile, national wrongful death cases like Botham Jean the young Black accountant who was gunned down by an off duty cop while eating ice cream on his couch, and Ahmaud Arbery

Iconic pop artist Burton Morris tells us why his art is a hit with celebrities and CEOs

Burton Morris, a Pittsburgh native, broke into the art world in a similar fashion to Andy Warhol, who also hails from Pittsburgh, when Absolut vodka selected him to design artwork for “Absolut Pennsylvania”, a national advertising campaign started by Andy Warhol. The piece he was commissioned to design had all the markings of a Burton

How Isaac Wright Jr. changed New Jersey law and overturned his life sentence from behind bars

Perhaps one of the most remarkable underdog stories in America belongs to Isaac Wright Jr., the wrongfully incarcerated Attorney who’s currently running for Mayor of New York. Wright’s story is a David and goliath tale of a man who refused to accept the fate that was imposed on him by a broken judicial system, and

22gz on Kodak Black having his human rights violated, prison reform, how Riker’s Island traumatized him at 16 and teases new documentary

Striped magazine is a publication that’s sent in print to inmates in the tristate area. We work with Attorneys to offer legal information and aid, free of charge. A subscription to the magazine is free and anyone incarcerated in America can request one. Brooklyn drill king of NY 22gz, AKA “two two,” sat down with

Connecticut Rapper Yung Gap, Known For ‘Trip To The Bank’ Talks About Raising a Daughter at 16 From Behind Bars, His Case, and Prison Reform

Waterbury native Yung Gap sat down with Striped magazine to discuss prison reform, his case, and new music he’s working on while behind bars. In 2018 Gap was arrested for a pending criminal charge and sent to New Haven CC where he is awaiting trial. Because of COVID-19, his trial has been delayed, but he’s

NYC rapper Squidnice, who did ‘Trap by my lonely’ talks about prison reform, says police harass people because they were bullied in school and talks about how he had to use a sandwich as a pillow in jail

This week we caught up with Staten Island native Squidnice, a rapper who earned his spot in the viral ranks of Soundcloud with his two hit singles “Everywhere I go” and “Trap by my lonely” both of which garnered over 10 million views collectively. We asked him about prison reform, racial discrimination, and new projects

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Striped Magazine is a monthly magazine sent to inmates in CT and NY. We send entertaining material, interviews with artists and prison reform activists, and legal information to inmates. Striped started as meme packets I’d send to my friends in jail and then slowly developed into a monthly publication.