Opinion by George F. Will: New York’s Rikers Island is a disgraceful emblem of a benighted era
how violence “soared” in the summer of 2021, when “nearly a third” of the city’s jail officers stopped coming to work. Their union contract grants them unlimited sick leave.Rikers is not an argument against mass incarceration: Most inmates there should be inmates somewhere. The Manhattan Institute’s Charles Fain Lehman
in City Journal that “of the roughly 5,200 pretrial detainees in DOC [Department of Corrections] custody as of mid-December, 29 percent faced homicide charges, and another 46 percent were there for rape, burglary, robbery, assault, or weapons offenses.” And disregard irrelevant cant about “systemic racism.” Equity-mongers appalled by racial “disparities” should
Rafael A. Mangual in City Journal: Nationally, Black males are victims of gun homicides at a rate almost 10 times higher than White males. In New York City in 2021, 97 percent of shooting victims were Black or Hispanic.that the U.S. incarceration rate is the lowest since 1990.
Most inmates will someday return to the communities from which they were extracted. The communities might have been improved by the extractions, but most of these ex-prisoners will not have been improved by incarceration. Rikers might have a singular concatenation of pathologies. Do not, however, assume that jails and prisons in your city or state are not today making tomorrow worse.
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