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NY: Controlled Chaos: A Day Working the Rikers Island Book Cart

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Controlled Chaos: A Day Working the Rikers Island Book Cart by Jamie Niehof, Intern, Correctional Services Program April 19, 2010 Another day of volunteering at Rikers Island with the NYPL has come to a close. Thursday I went to one of the male detention houses along with my mentor and two other staff members from NYPL. We were there for "book cart service," which is a little different than what I remember from Shawshank Redemption. We delivered books to both solitary confinement and two different "houses," which are the names of blocks within the building. The inmates in solitary confinement are allowed to request books off a list, so we filled these requests from the "library" within this particular building, which was really just two tall shelves of paperback books in the back of the Chaplain's office...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 25, 2010 (boomark / email).