These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails Library of America are also available for purchase

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Sommer lets his cast of characters do the talking as he visits them around the world

" He urges readers to understand that their conversion was more than a mere point in time

As the world sits vigil

I leaned into that character

These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails Library of America are also available for purchaseISBN 13: 9781982193911 Publisher: Avid Reader Press Simon & Schuster Publication date: 10 24 2023 Pages: 224 Sales rank: 207,671 Product dimensions: 5. 40(w) x 8. 50(h) x 0. 90(d) 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 In the tradition of Locking Up Our Own and The New Jim Crow, a rarely seen, thought