Rikers : an oral history
Record details
- ISBN: 0593134214
- ISBN: 9780593134214
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Physical Description:
ix, 452 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- First day : "A city within a city" -- Linus : "There was no plan B" -- Bullpen therapy : "A life sentence, thirty days at a time" -- Race : "It's a different type of plantation mentality" -- Gangs : "Dude, that's a Latin King tattoo on his chest" -- Violence : "I've walked with a razor in my mouth" -- Solitary : "Nobody can hear the wheels squeak anymore" -- Mental health : "Cupcake gerbil face" -- Medical care : "Factory of despair" -- Pregnancy : "The house of pregnant girls" -- Food : "That's when I became a vegetarian" -- Contraband : "People made weapons out of bones" -- Minister : "We get our gun in" -- Riots : "All pandemonium broke loose" -- Escapes : "Ron, you couldn't pick a better name than John Hancock?" -- Cos : "When the music stops, you better have a seat" -- Teens : "They used to call it Vietnam or gladiator school" -- Celebrities : "Yo, could you listen to this for me?" -- LGBTQ : "They had what they called homosexual housing" -- Conditions : "Er, uh, uh, we need a plan - We'll be submitting a plan" -- Visitation : "A humiliation process" -- Death : "There were some rosaries and beads" -- Humanity : "When we lose the art of being human, we stop becoming" -- COVID-19 : "If this comes to Rikers, we're all screwed" -- Jacobson : "Nice Jewish boy winds up correction commissioner" -- Stats : "They sit down and put their little story together" -- Unions : "Serious violence is routinized" -- Close Rikers : "Executive summary : damned if I know" -- Last day : "Don't ever look back or else you'll come back" -- After Rikers -- Note to readers -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Rikers Island (N.Y.) Imprisonment United States Prisoners New York (State) Rikers Island Correctional institutions New York (State) Rikers Island |
Genre: | Interviews. |
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Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library | 365 RAY (Text) | 37268003144474 | AHMFL Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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2023 Snayberger Grant
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Conway S. Williams Named Endowment, 2023
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