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From The New Plantation
by Jason Trask 05/12/2019Neighborhood: Rikers Island
Lessons from Rikers Island That first morning, I was stopped by the correction officers just before the bridge that leads to the 413-acre, liver-shaped island in the middle of the East River between Queens and the Bronx. I was struck by how bored the COs acted. It was as if they were telling me there […]