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,
“... The city budget for the coming year provides funding for an additional 578 corrections officers. Jarrod Shanahan’s history of Rikers Island, Captives, argues that none of this is new. There has always been a ‘push and pull’, as he puts it, between COBA, City Hall, the federal courts, lawyers, activists, incarcerated people and public ... ”
