Lil Wayne's Rikers Island memoir 'Gone 'Til November' is a missed opportunity
America is home to one of the world’s largest and most notorious penal colonies: Rikers Island in New York. In it sit more mentally ill individuals than all of the state’s psychiatric hospitals combined. Eighty percent of its residents have been convicted of nothing and cannot afford bail; 89%...
L.A. Times - Entertainment — America is home to one of the world’s largest and most notorious penal colonies: Rikers Island in New York. In it sit more mentally ill individuals than all of the... more info