A sinking jail: The environmental disaster that is Rikers Island

Grist
By Raven RakiaMar 15, 2016, 5:05 am27 pts
There’s a known stench on Rikers Island in the New York summertime. Neither the people incarcerated there, nor the correction officers working there, can escape it. “The smell alone would torture you,” says Candie Hailey-Means, who was incarcerated at Rikers until May 2015. “It smells like sewer, mixed…

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