Jarrod Shanahan: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage [2022] paperback Condition:New Anna Jones

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Jarrod Shanahan: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage [2022] paperback Condition:New Anna JonesCaptives 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