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1) Rikers High
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After he is arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island as he waits for his case to go to court.
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The United States is facing a crisis of mass incarceration with over 2.2 million people packed into its jails and prisons. To understand the human toll of this crisis, Rikers Island is a good place to start. Of the more than 7,500 people detained at Rikers Island on any given day, almost 80% have not yet been found guilty or innocent of the charges they face. All are at risk in the pervasive culture of violence that forces people to come to terms...
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"Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people comprising a broad cross-section of lives Rikers has touched--from detainees and their relatives to officers, lawyers, and commissioners, with stories spanning from the 1970s to the present day. The deeply personal accounts that emerge call into question the very nature of justice in America. Offering a 360-degree view inside the country's...
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The rapid population expansion in New York City at the start of the 20th century prompted the city to increase its urban infrastructure. In the early 1900s, work began on Riker's Island, a small island in the East River that would become the nation's largest prison colony. When it was completed in the 1930s, Riker's Island consisted of 10 buildings and could house more than 15,000 inmates.
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This riveting blend of on-the-ground reporting and sweeping social and architectural history discusses the decision to close Rikers Island and what it will really mean for reformists, justice architects, abolitionists, city government officials, prison guards and the incarcerated themselves.
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As the newest deputy in a small Alabama town, Henry Ward is hoping to escape painful memories. Then a rain of bullets brings his history rising up again, throwing Cassie Gates directly into his path.
He hasn't forgotten their night together, seven...
As the newest deputy in a small Alabama town, Henry Ward is hoping to escape painful memories. Then a rain of bullets brings his history rising up again, throwing Cassie Gates directly into his path.
He hasn't forgotten their night together, seven...