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Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jarrod Shanahan
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:448
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 153
Category/GenreMemoirs
True Stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781804290552
ClassificationsDewey:365.97471
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Verso Books
Imprint Verso Books
NZ Release Date 2 August 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Captives combines a thrilling narrative account of Rikers Island's descent into infamy with a dramatic retelling of the last seventy years of New York and American politics from the vantage point of its jails. It is a story of a crowded field of contending powers-city bureaucrats and unions, black power activists and correction offices, crooked cops and elected leaders- struggle for the right to run our cities, a story that culminates in the triumph of of the twin figures we today call neoliberalism and mass incarceration. It is the history of how the Rikers Island of today-and the social order it represents-came to be. With a sweeping vision and an often cinematic touch, Captives records how the tempo of history was set by the metronome of bloody and bruising clashes between corrections officers and prisoners, and between police officers and virtually everyone else. Written by a one-time inmate, Captives draws on extensive archival research, decades of journalism, interviews, prisoner testimonials, and firsthand experience to deliver an urgent intervention into our nationwide conversation about the future of mass incarceration.

Author Biography

Jarrod Shanahan is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University. Jarrod is the author of dozens of articles, short stories, and zines, and is a former inmate at the Eric M. Taylor Center at Rikers Island.