Rikers Island is one of the world’s most notorious jails. Incarcerated workers built it on a foundation of garbage, and New York City packs it with about 6,000 people, most of whom are awaiting trial. The illustrator Medar de la Cruz worked there as a library assistant for the Brooklyn Public Library. “Phones and cameras aren’t allowed on Rikers,” he writes, but “sometimes I saw things that I felt compelled to draw from memory later.” See his full comic here: http://nyer.cm/QIjmpxr | The New Yor
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Rikers Island is one of the world’s most notorious jails. Incarcerated workers built it on a foundation of garbage, and New York City packs it with about 6,000 people, most of
The New Yorker. . Rikers Island is one of the world’s most notorious jails. Incarcerated workers built it on a foundation of garbage, and New York City packs it with about 6,000 people, most of whom are awaiting trial. The illustrator Medar de la Cruz worked there as a library assistant for the Brooklyn Public Library. “Phones and cameras ...
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