Graham Rayman – Rikers: An Oral History

These are visceral stories of despair, brutality, resilience, humor, and hope, told by the people who were marooned on the island over the course of decades. As calls to shutter jails and reduce the number of incarcerated people grow louder across the country, with the movement to close the island complex itself at the forefront, Graham Rayman’s Rikers: An Oral History is a resounding lesson about the human consequences of the incarceration industry.