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Rikers

Rikers

by Paul Volponi

FictionTeenage boysCorrectional institutionsPrisonersJuvenile delinquents
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Martin Stokes, known as Forty, is a seventeen-year-old awaiting trial on Rikers Island for a minor offense. After his case gets postponed in New York City's dizzying system of overworked legal-aid lawyers and short-tempered judges, Forty embarks on an extended odyssey inside the world's largest and most dangerous jail.

Themes & subjects

FictionTeenage boysCorrectional institutionsPrisonersJuvenile delinquents

Setting

New York (State)Rikers Island (N.Y.)New York

Author

Paul Volponi

Pages

242

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

2

Language

English

Publisher

Black Heron Press

ISBN

9780930773755

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