Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Any Given Day 600 Women Jailed on Rikers
City and State:
* On any given day, 600 women are jailed at Rikers Island, yet they are absent from the larger narrative about incarceration. With the welcome news that the complex is now headed for eventual closure, Ana Oliveira and Alison Wilkey write, we must face the realization that gender matters when we talk about prison reform.