Prologue
First day : "A city within a city"
Linus : "There was no plan B"
Bullpen therapy : "A life sentence, thirty days at a time"
Race : "It's a different type of plantation mentality"
Gangs : "Dude, that's a Latin King tattoo on his chest"
Violence : "I've walked with a razor in my mouth"
Solitary : "Nobody can hear the wheels squeak anymore"
Mental health : "Cupcake gerbil face"
Medical care : "Factory of despair"
Pregnancy : "The house of pregnant girls"
Food : "That's when I became a vegetarian"
Contraband : "People made weapons out of bones"
Minister : "We get our gun in"
Riots : "All pandemonium broke loose"
Escapes : "Ron, you couldn't pick a better name than John Hancock?"
Cos : "When the music stops, you better have a seat"
Teens : "They used to call it Vietnam or gladiator school"
Celebrities : "Yo, could you listen to this for me?"
LGBTQ : "They had what they called homosexual housing"
Conditions : "Er, uh, uh, we need a plan - We'll be submitting a plan"
Visitation : "A humiliation process"
Death : "There were some rosaries and beads"
Humanity : "When we lose the art of being human, we stop becoming"
COVID-19 : "If this comes to Rikers, we're all screwed"
Jacobson : "Nice Jewish boy winds up correction commissioner"
Stats : "They sit down and put their little story together"
Unions : "Serious violence is routinized"
Close Rikers : "Executive summary : damned if I know"
Last day : "Don't ever look back or else you'll come back"
After Rikers
Note to readers
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index.