Monday, 27 July 2015

Across the 'Bridge of Pain', How the Rikers Island Jail became America’s most infamous penitentiary.

Across the 'Bridge of Pain', How the Rikers Island Jail became America’s most infamous penitentiary.

How did a city landfill in the armpit of the Bronx become one of the world’s most infamous penitentiaries? How did a house of detention opened to progressive fanfare during the New Deal come to symbolize the worst excesses of our contemporary justice system?
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