Verkkoevery day, people are fighting for their lives. Years of reports, hearings, and press conferences have documented the abusive conditions at the rikers. Verkkoa new york times investigation — drawing on confidential memos and other internal city documents, hundreds of pages of public records and. Verkkorikers island is the main jail complex for new york city. At its height in the 1990s, 22,000 people were incarcerated there. Having attracted national and. Verkkotwelve detainees, most on rikers, have died this year, making 2021 the deadliest in new york city’s jail system since 2016. Four captains and eight. Verkkothese are some of the voices from the jails of rikers island that are heard in a new documentary from journalist bill moyers, “rikers,” that was screened nov. Verkkoone of the takeaways of “rikers: An oral history,” a new book by the journalists graham rayman and reuven blau, is the shock inmates feel upon.
