Captives combines a thrilling narrative account of Rikers Island's
descent into infamy with a dramatic retelling of the last seventy
years of New York and American politics from the vantage point of
its jails. It is a story of a crowded field of contending
powers-city bureaucrats and unions, black power activists and
correction offices, crooked cops and elected leaders- struggle for
the right to run our cities, a story that culminates in the triumph
of of the twin figures we today call neoliberalism and mass
incarceration. It is the history of how the Rikers Island of
today-and the social order it represents-came to be. With a
sweeping vision and an often cinematic touch, Captives records how
the tempo of history was set by the metronome of bloody and
bruising clashes between corrections officers and prisoners, and
between police officers and virtually everyone else. Written by a
one-time inmate, Captives draws on extensive archival research,
decades of journalism, interviews, prisoner testimonials, and
firsthand experience to deliver an urgent intervention into our
nationwide conversation about the future of mass incarceration.
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