City time on being sentenced to Rikers Island
"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 in...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York University Press,
[2025]
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| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479828999 1479828998 9781479829002 1479829005 |
| Author Notes: | David Campbell is a writer, translator, and former antifascist political prisoner. He was a PEN America 2021 Writing for Justice Fellowship finalist, and his writing has been featured in numerous publications, including Slate, Huffington Post, CUNY Law Review, New York Focus, Truthout , and the Appeal . He is the translator of Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity . Jarrod Shanahan (Author) Jarrod Shanahan is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University. He is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage; co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System; and co-editor of Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity , a Noel Ignatiev reader. |
