RT Article
T1 Rikers Island: the failure of a “Model” penitentiary
JF The prison journal
VO 100
IS 6
SP 687
OP 708
A1 Mooney, Jayne 1964-
A2 Shanahan, Jarrod
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1800509162
AB New York City’s Rikers jail complex is gripped by a crisis of legitimacy. Following a series of investigations, it has been denounced as a major symbol of criminal justice dysfunction, with calls for its closure and replacement with new smaller “state of the art” jails. Yet, when it opened, Rikers was hailed as a “model” facility, at the cutting edge of prison design and prisoner rehabilitation. To elucidate the present situation, we provide a focus on the under-explored history of New York City’s penal institutions.
K1 Rikers Island
K1 Penitentiaries
K1 Prisons
K1 Jails
K1 New York City
K1 Penal Reform
DO 10.1177/0032885520968238