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City Time : on being sentenced to Rikers Island Cover Image Book

City Time : on being sentenced to Rikers Island / David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan.

Campbell, David (Translator), (author.). Shanahan, Jarrod, (author.).

Summary:

"City Time is an immersive ethnographic account of the social world and daily activities of men serving their sentences at New York City's Rikers Island Penal colony, written by two of its former prisoners. The result is a vital glimpse behind the headlines and into the day to day reality of mass incarceration in New York City"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781479828999
  • ISBN: 1479828998
  • ISBN: 9781479829002
  • ISBN: 1479829005
  • Physical Description: 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [2025]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Intake -- The people of City Time -- A day in the life -- Doing time -- Work -- Special occasions -- Food -- Hygiene -- Clothing -- Substance abuse and mental health -- Interpersonal relationships -- Institutional relationships -- Release.

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Subject:
Jails > New York (State) > Rikers Island.
Prisoners > New York (State) > Rikers Island.
Imprisonment > New York (State) > New York.
Emprisonnement > New York (État) > New York.
Genre:
Personal narratives.

Additional Physical Form Titles

City time.

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