A Jail is a Jail

About this record

Typed flyer on a sheet of blue paper, double-sided. Opens with a discussion of the June 1971 transfer of inmates from NYC's infamous Women's House of Detention to the newly constructed New York City Correctional Facility for Women, which was done suddenly to try to avoid protests. The new facility at Rikers Island is described as an "isolated penal colony" which the city of New York spent somewhere between 16 and 24 million dollars building. Corrections authorities called it a "unique hotel," wi