Jarrod Shanahan: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage [2022] paperback Condition:New mysterious and shapeshifting as sunlight

mysterious and shapeshifting as sunlight on water

finding motivation or learning to forgive yourself

Full of warmth and promise

the nights are dark and freezing

An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947

Jarrod Shanahan: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage [2022] paperback Condition:New mysterious and shapeshifting as sunlightCaptives combines a thrilling narrative account of Rikers Island's descent into infamy with a dramatic retelling of the last seventy years of New York and American politics from the vantage point of its jails. It is a story of a crowded field of contending powers city bureaucrats and unions, black power activists and correction offices, crooked cops and elected leaders struggle for the right to run our cities, a story that culminates in the triumph of