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Inside Rikers: Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colonyby Jennifer Wynn
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Part memoir, part social commentary, Inside Rikers details the author's experiences on Rikers — the largest, most expensive correctional facility in the world. Wynn offers a compelling portrait of its 18,000 inmates and shows how Rikers was transformed from one of the most violent jails into one of the safest. Synopsis:Rikers Island-just six miles from the Empire State Building-is one of the largest, most complex and most expensive penal institutions in the world, yet most New Yorkers couldn't find it on a map. Jennifer Wynn, the director of the Fresh Start program at Rikers, takes readers into the jails and then back out-to the communities where her students were born and raised. She chronicles their journeys as they struggle to "go straight" and find respect in a city that fears and rejects them.
About the AuthorJennifer Wynn is the director of the Prison Visiting Project at the Correctional Association of New York, the oldest criminal justice agency in New York City, and editor of the Rikers Review for the Osborne Association. She has visited over thirty state prisons and interviewed hundreds of prisoners—in solitary confinement, in prison yards, and in mess halls. She lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York, and is a doctoral candidate at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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