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While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are detainees awaiting the settlement of their cases, a smaller population have already been convicted and are serving sentences deemed too short for the state prison system. These stints are called 鈥渃ity time.鈥� The sentences range from a few days to a year, and are generally served within large, open dormitories lacking in privacy and sanitation. Within these spaces, incarcerated people reproduce an elaborate set of rules, rituals, and relationships, as a means both of survival and of giving meaning to the time taken from them.

Written by David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan, who both served sentences at Rikers,聽City Time聽reflects its authors鈥� personal experiences and observations of short-stay incarceration to present a nuanced and vivid account of a social world kept locked away from the public eye. The authors reconstruct the daily realities of sanitation, nourishment, recreation, work, and other necessary activities, and emphasize the complex interpersonal relationships that emerge in response to city time. Simultaneously, they paint a grim and urgent picture of structural racism, class violence, and the disastrous lack of mental health and substance abuse resources for poor New Yorkers, who are shuttled in and out of city time sentences as 鈥渇requent flyers.鈥�

Beginning with the authors鈥� own processes of intake, and ending with the ritual of late-night release,聽City Time聽takes readers behind the splashy headlines to depict, in intimately human terms, the rich and variegated social world unfolding, at this very moment, on Rikers Island.

David Campbell聽is a writer, translator, and former antifascist political prisoner. He was a PEN America 2021 Writing for Justice Fellowship finalist, and his writing has been featured in numerous publications, including聽Slate, Huffington Post, CUNY Law Review, New York Focus, Truthout, and聽the Appeal. He is the translator of聽Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity.

Jarrod Shanahan聽is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University. He is the author of聽Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage;聽co-author of聽States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America鈥檚 Punishment System;聽and co-editor of聽Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity, a Noel Ignatiev reader.