Lab Research on Rikers Island Featured in Vital City NYC

The Justice Lab’s research and findings on the pretrial process in NYC have been published in Vital City NYC’s Special Online Issue, “Inside Rikers: Jails can be safer and more humane.”

October 17, 2024
Inside Rikers: Jails can be safer and more humane

Lab Director Bruce Western discusses Rikers Island in an interview titled, “Bruce Western on the Impact of Jail on the Lives of New Yorkers.”

Jaclyn Davis, Timothy Ittner, and Samantha Plummer discuss the hardships faced by individuals throughout their pre-trial processes in “Hardship on Top of Hardship.” This article is based on a new report from the Lab’s Rikers Island Longitudinal Study, which can be read here.

The full Vital City NYC issue can be read here.

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