Reviving the Asylum Is Not the Answer to Gun Violence
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A vivid arc of life on Rikers as told by the people who experienced it — from the trauma of entry, the conflicts with other inmates and corrections officers, the stabbings and beatings, and the torture of solitary confinement to the psychological challenges of returning to the outside world
Our history of racial terror casts a shadow across the U.S. landscape. We must engage it more honestly.
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