Rikers Island has long been a dysfunctional, violent place, but 2021 has been particularly bloody. @schwartzapfel spoke with detainees, correction officers, and government about the jail's new state of emergency, in collaboration with @MarshallProj bit.ly/3DiZ8xD
@schwartzapfel @MarshallProj A correction officer on Rikers Island for more than ten years on the conditions at the jail: bit.ly/3DiZ8xD 
@schwartzapfel @MarshallProj Gangs run the jail now and can decide who sleeps in which dorm, says Robert, a former detainee bit.ly/3DiZ8xD
@schwartzapfel @MarshallProj Robert L. Cohen, a member of the New York City Board of Correction, on what has created the crisis on Rikers Island: bit.ly/3DiZ8xD
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