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Rikers Island is a huge prison complex on an island in East River – located between Queens and the Bronx.
BRONX

Shutting Rikers would be a major step towards fixing the US’s prisons

New York City’s jail has a long history of being a hotbed of inequality and abuse, which still lingers.

  • Ruth Hopkins
6 min read
Rikers Island is a huge prison complex on an island in East River – located between Queens and the Bronx. (Jewel Samad, AFP)
BRONX

Shutting Rikers would be a major step towards fixing the US’s racially skewed prisons

New York City’s jail has a long history of being a hotbed of inequality and abuse, which still lingers.

  • Ruth Hopkins
6 min read
BOUNCERS

Club owner’s death ‘not linked to bouncer clampdown’

The murder of the owner of a prominent Cape Town gay nightclub has not been linked to a clampdown on the bouncer industry in the city.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read