“These Walls reframes the debate the country's incarceration crisis, with a compelling focus on architecture as a path forward.” ?Tony Messenger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Profit and Punishment “A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead to create safety and justice." ?Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing For nearly a century, the Rikers Island jail complex has stood on a 413-acre man-made island in the East River of New York. Today it is the largest correctional facility in the city, housing eight...
“These Walls reframes the debate the country's incarceration crisis, with a compelling focus on architecture as a path forward.” ?Tony Messenger, ...