[johnbryanpeters]

I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers.

Rikers Island jail complex “reflects our nation’s racist and destructive fixation on imprisonment,” writes former New York City jails commissioner Vincent Schiraldi. “It’s Exhibit A for why we need to end mass incarceration.”

www.themarshallproject.org

 

[kidwoo]

Rikers is a god damn national disgrace

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Rikers is a god damn national disgrace

All of our prisons are.

 

[junkyard]

I have this friend and we stopped by Long Island on our way to Europe. We stayed with his maternal aunt and husband. An ex president of the booze fighters. We went and met up with another maternal uncle who was a former rikers island prison guard at a bar. He was trying to convince us to go to the city with him to have a wild night drinking. I was real glad to get away from that maniac and back to the nicer calmer biker household for a quiet night of beers around a campfire.

 

[jonKranked]

All of our prisons are.

capitalism lets prisons be run for-profit. the Free Market has spoken.