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"These Walls reframes the debate the country's incarceration crisis, with a compelling focus on architecture as a path forward." ?Tony Messenger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Profit and Punishment"A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead to create safety and justice." ?Alex Vitale, author of The End of PolicingFor nearly a century, the Rikers Island jail complex has stood on a 413-acre man-made island in the East River of New York. Today it is the largest correctional facility in the city, housing eight active jails and thousands of incarcerated individuals who have not yet been tried. It is also one of the most controversial and notorious jails in America.Which is why, when mayor Bill de Blasio announced in 2017 that Rikers would be closed within the next decade, replaced with four newly designed jails located within the city boroughs, the...

Author

Eva Fedderly

Publisher

Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

Published

2023

Language

EN