Author : Jennifer Wynn
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429937602
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Book Synopsis Inside Rikers by : Jennifer Wynn
Download or read book Inside Rikers written by Jennifer Wynn and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2002-07-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rikers Island--just six miles from the Empire State Building--is one of the largest, most complex and most expensive penal institutions in the world, yet most New Yorkers couldn't find it on a map. Jennifer Wynn, the director of the Fresh Start program at Rikers, takes readers into the jails and then back out-to the communities where her students were born and raised. She chronicles their journeys as they struggle to "go straight" and find respect in a city that fears and rejects them. Part memoir, part social commentary, Inside Rikers details the author's experiences on Rikers. Wynn offers a compelling portrait of its 18,000 inmates and how Rikers was transformed from one of the most violent jails into one of the safest.