Jarrett Murphy
Rikers Island. Most of the people on it are pretrail detainees, many of them stuck there because they could not afford bail.
‘We’ll never learn the names of people found dead in the subway or in their Rikers cell, preventable casualties of public austerity and incalculable racism.’
“Roughly eighteen months ago I was released from state prison after serving nearly forty years throughout the state of New York. Contrary to what you may have heard today, there are no good prisons. Jails, prisons, and correctional facilities are cruel, inhumane, and oppressive places.” —Jose Saldana (Director, Release Aging People in Prison) Mayor […]
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