New York Times: Debate Course Aims to Help Rikers Inmates Lobby for Their Rights

Like so many followers of the circus that is the presidential election, the men housed at the Rikers Island jail complex watched in dismay over the past several weeks as the contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump descended into an unseemly spectacle of coarse threats, personal insults and rebuffed handshakes. The rancor and puerility have surprised even the most hardened crowd. view original press