These Walls
The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Description: xiii, 203 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:
Correctional institutions -- New York (State) -- Rikers Island.
Prisoners -- New York (State) -- Rikers Island.
Rikers Island (N.Y.)
Correctional institutions -- New York (State) -- Rikers Island.
Prisoners -- New York (State) -- Rikers Island.
Rikers Island (N.Y.)
ISBN:
9781982193911
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Main (Downtown) | Nonfiction | Just Ordered | |
Ballentine Indoors | Nonfiction | Just Ordered | |
SOCIAL SCI Crime Punishment Fed | Ballentine Indoors | New, Nonfiction | In |
SOCIAL SCI Crime Punishment Fed | Sandhills Indoors | New, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/3/2024) |
SOCIAL SCI Crime Punishment Fed | Wheatley (Shandon) | New, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-202).