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Captives combines a thrilling account of Rikers Island?s descent into infamy with a dramatic retelling of the last seventy years of New York politics from the vantage point of the city?s jails. It is a story of a crowded field of contending powers?city bureaucrats and unions, black power activists and guards, crooked cops and elected leaders?struggling for power and influence, a tale culminating in mass incarceration and the triumph of neoliberalism. It is a riveting chronicle of how the Rikers Island of today?and the social order it represents?came to be.Conjuring sweeping cinematic vistas, Captives records how the tempo of history was set by bloody and bruising clashes between guards and prisoners, between rank-and-filers and union bosses, between reformers and reactionaries, and between police officers and virtually everyone else. Written by a one-time Rikers prisoner, Captives draws on extensive archival research, decades of journalism, interviews, prisoner testimonials, and