Times reporters, Michael Winerip and Michael Schwirtz, have written a series of stories about brutality at Rikers Island.
Since the first piece ran in March, a judge has urged the firing of six officials implicated in beatings inside the jail and Joseph Ponte, New York City’s correction commissioner, has announced the end of solitary confinement for juveniles.
The reporters, who have been on the story exclusively for several months, supply insight into one of the highest impact investigative reports in recent memory.
[For more of this story, written by Susan Lehman, go to http://www.nytimes.com/times-i..._type=blogs&_r=0]
Comments (1)