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Dispatch From Deadly Rikers Island: “It Looks Like a Slave Ship in There.”

Rikers Island has been notorious for violence and neglect for decades. But detainees, corrections officers and officials tell us the New York City jail complex has plunged into a new state of emergency.

Life Inside • 10.05.2021

Stopping Violence Over Prison Phone Time? There’s an App for That.

While Corey Devon Arthur was quarantining, people in the unit got tablets equipped with telephone apps. “If we all had the option to use a phone app, the value of violence would plunge,” he writes.

Life Inside • 08.12.2021

The Cruel Irony of Social Distancing When You’re Stuck in Solitary

Our running joke: ‘You may go crazy in here, but at least you won’t get corona.’

Life Inside • 05.07.2020

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