New York City's captive work force: Remembering the prisoners who built Rikers Island
This article undertakes a "history of the present" as a means of intervening in current debate around the closure of the Rikers Island jail complex and its replacement with smaller "state of the art" jails. We argue that the telling of carceral history is potentially a powerful w...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2019
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International journal of law, crime and justice
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
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