Shutting Rikers would be a major step towards fixing the US’s prisons
Roughly 95% of the current 7 800 inmates at Rikers are people of colour. This reflects a national trend: in the United States, one out of three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime and African-American women are three times more likely to be jailed than white women. New York City’s jail has a long history of being a hotbed of inequality and abuse, which still lingers. “One day, I was walking through the receiving room and … Read more