Rikers: An Oral History
Graham Rayman · Reuven Blau
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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORSâ CHOICE âĒ A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have been forever altered by it
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âThis mesmerizing and gut-wrenching book shows the brutal realities that tens of thousands of people have been forced to navigate, and survive, in Americaâs most notorious jail.ââPiper Kerman, New York Times bestselling author of Orange is the New Black
A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
What happens when you pack almost a dozen jails, bulging at the seams with societyâs cast-offs, onto a spit of landfill purposefully hidden from public view? Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people comprising a broad cross section of lives touched by New York City's Rikers Island prison complexâfrom incarcerated people and their relatives, to officers, lawyers, and commissioners, with stories spanning the 1970s to the present day. The portrait that emerges calls into question the very nature of justice in America.
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Offering a 360-degree view inside the countryâs largest detention complex, the deeply personal accountsâfeatured here for the first timeâtake readers on a harrowing journey into every corner of Rikers, a failed society unto itself that reflects societyâs failings as a whole.
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Dr. Homer Venters was shocked by the screams on his first day working at Rikers: âTheyâre in solitary, just yelling . . . the yelling literally never stops.â After a few months, though, Dr. Venters notes, one's ears adjust to the sounds. Nestor Eversley recalls how detainees made weapons from bones. Barry Campbell recalls hiding a razor blade in his mouthââjust in caseâ.
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These are visceral stories of despair, brutality, resilience, humor, and hope, told by the people who were marooned on the island over the course of decades. As calls to shutter jails and reduce the number of incarcerated people grow louder across the country, with the movement to close the island complex itself at the forefront, Rikers is a resounding lesson about the human consequences of the incarceration industry.
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âThis mesmerizing and gut-wrenching book shows the brutal realities that tens of thousands of people have been forced to navigate, and survive, in Americaâs most notorious jail.ââPiper Kerman, New York Times bestselling author of Orange is the New Black
A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
What happens when you pack almost a dozen jails, bulging at the seams with societyâs cast-offs, onto a spit of landfill purposefully hidden from public view? Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people comprising a broad cross section of lives touched by New York City's Rikers Island prison complexâfrom incarcerated people and their relatives, to officers, lawyers, and commissioners, with stories spanning the 1970s to the present day. The portrait that emerges calls into question the very nature of justice in America.
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Offering a 360-degree view inside the countryâs largest detention complex, the deeply personal accountsâfeatured here for the first timeâtake readers on a harrowing journey into every corner of Rikers, a failed society unto itself that reflects societyâs failings as a whole.
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Dr. Homer Venters was shocked by the screams on his first day working at Rikers: âTheyâre in solitary, just yelling . . . the yelling literally never stops.â After a few months, though, Dr. Venters notes, one's ears adjust to the sounds. Nestor Eversley recalls how detainees made weapons from bones. Barry Campbell recalls hiding a razor blade in his mouthââjust in caseâ.
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These are visceral stories of despair, brutality, resilience, humor, and hope, told by the people who were marooned on the island over the course of decades. As calls to shutter jails and reduce the number of incarcerated people grow louder across the country, with the movement to close the island complex itself at the forefront, Rikers is a resounding lesson about the human consequences of the incarceration industry.
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