![Across the 'Bridge of Pain', How the Rikers Island Jail became America’s most infamous penitentiary.](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sVTDeu1eAWIMOJee89LbnwalnYmBwf7XzRqZ3M_9cKVv_BpBXoiTp0S1EI0DChn79VGRBwxAJQIw=s0-d)
How did a city landfill in the armpit of the Bronx become one of the world’s most infamous penitentiaries? How did a house of detention opened to progressive fanfare during the New Deal come to symbolize the worst excesses of our contemporary justice system?
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