Across the 'Bridge of Pain', How the Rikers Island Jail became America’s most infamous penitentiary.
How did a city landfill in the armpit of the Bronx become one of the world’s most infamous penitentiaries? How did a house of detention opened to progressive fanfare during the New Deal come to symbolize the worst excesses of our contemporary justice system?
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