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,
“... in the US (Los Angeles County confines three times as many people but spends $1 billion less). Vincent Schiraldi, the Department of Correction commissioner under de Blasio, suspects that recent staffing issues are the result of a co-ordinated mass sick-out, an illegal tactic. Adams, meanwhile, is working hard to distinguish himself from his ... ”