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The Roundtable

"Rikers: An Oral History" questions the nature of justice in America

By Joe Donahue
Published January 31, 2023 at 11:34 AM EST
Random House

Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people comprising a broad cross section of lives touched by New York City’s Rikers Island prison complex. The portrait that emerges calls into question the very nature of justice in America.

The new book is "Rikers: An Oral History."

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