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092    365.9747|bRAY 
100 1  Rayman, Graham A.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Rikers :|ban oral history /|cGraham Rayman and Reuven 
       Blau. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2023] 
300    ix, 452 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index. 
520    "What happens when you jam almost a dozen jails, bulging 
       at the seams with society's cast-offs, onto a spit of 
       landfill, purposefully hidden from public view and named 
       after the family of a judge who sent escaped slaves and 
       free Black men to plantations in the South? Prize-winning 
       journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two 
       years interviewing more than 130 people comprising a broad
       cross-section of lives Rikers has touched-from detainees 
       and their relatives to officers, lawyers, and 
       commissioners, with stories spanning from the 1970s to the
       present day. The deeply personal accounts that emerge call
       into question the very nature of justice in America. 
       Offering a 360-degree view inside the country's largest 
       detention complex for the first time, their voices take 
       readers on a harrowing journey into every corner of Rikers
       -a failed society unto itself that reflects society's 
       failings as a whole"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Correctional institutions|zNew York (State)|zRikers 
       Island. 
650  0 Prisoners|zNew York (State)|zRikers Island. 
651  0 Rikers Island (N.Y.) 
700 1  Blau, Reuven,|eauthor.