Inside Rikers: Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colony

Inside Rikers: Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colony by Wynn, Jennifer. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780312291587.

Rikers Island-just six miles from the Empire State Building-is one of the largest, most complex and most expensive penal institutions in the world, yet most New Yorkers couldnt find it on a map. Jennifer Wynn, the director of the Fresh Start program at Rikers, takes readers into the jails and then back out-to the communities where her students were born and raised. She chronicles their journeys as they struggle to "go straight" and find respect in a city that fears and rejects them.