Incarceration, Human Rights, and Health: Life and Death in Rikers Island

Tawana Anthony — 2019-06-25T05:00:00Z

Tawana Anthony applauds Homer Venters' Life and Death in Rikers Island for exposing the institutional indifference to human rights that pervades Rikers Island, but notes that the book is silent on the structural changes in both the corrections and healthcare systems that would lead to significant and durable improvements.
Homer Venters, a member of Physicians for Human Rights and former head of Correctional Health Services in New York City, uses a human-rights perspective to examine

- Reviews / prison, incarceration, human rights, health, health risks, New York, United States, Rikers Island

The Right to Public Space

Gregory Smithsimon — 2015-03-10T05:55:00Z

Many of the commonly defended human rights (freedom of expression, of assembly, of information, of movement, etc.) depend on the availability of physical public space. Their absence, especially in the suburbs, routinely hinders the rights of citizens. For this reason, Gregory Smithsimon argues for a formal right to public space.
At the center of virtually every major protest movement in recent years has been a central public space. Anti-Mubarak protesters filled Tahrir Square in Egypt, just

- Debates / public space, United States, suburbs, human rights, right to the city

Metropolitics

Incarceration, Human Rights, and Health: Life and Death in Rikers Island

The Right to Public Space