Art by Richard Vergez
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Inside Rikers
Jails can be safer and more humane
How Did It Get This Bad?
The City’s Jails Continue to be Violent and Uncontrolled
Vital City and Victoria Lawson
The Limits of Litigation
Meg Egan
Persistent Problems Inside
From Plantation Prisons to the Modern Era
Malcolm Feeley and Van Swearingen
Bruce Western on the Impact of Jail on the Lives of New Yorkers
Bruce Western
What Will New York Do to Answer Decades of Rape Claims?
Jessy Edwards
Holding Rikers Officers Accountable: An Almost Impossible Task
Sarena Townsend
A Snapshot of How Unions Forestall Progress
Reuven Blau and Graham Rayman
It’s Not Impossible
Vital City
Hardship on Top of Hardship
Jaclyn Davis , Timothy Ittner and Samantha Plummer
The Way Forward
A Culture of Learning Can Defeat a Culture of Violence
Angela Hawken
Holistic Safety in Corrections: A Framework for Sustainable Change
Nneka Jones Tapia
Can A Receiver Bring Enduring Change for the Better?
Sara Norman , Hernandez Stroud , Zachary Carter , Michael Jacobson and Sarena Townsend
Rethinking the Prison Environment
Jordan M. Hyatt and Synøve N. Andersen
What Can New York City Learn from Abroad?
Cyrus Ahalt and Brie Williams
Now Comes the Hard Part
Dana Kaplan
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