Bastilles and Battalions
Sarah Resnick: On Rikers Island, 22 September 2022
Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage
by Jarrod Shanahan.
Verso, 433 pp., £20, May,978 1 78873 995 5 Show More
by Jarrod Shanahan.
Verso, 433 pp., £20, May,
“... describing rat infestations, grimy blankets, double celling, lax medical care and sexual abuse (Andrea Dworkin, arrested as a teenager at an anti-war protest, was among the whistleblowers). So Kross did what she thought was the next best thing: she built more jails. In the course of her twelve years as corrections commissioner, she began work on two ... ”