Description: "City Time is an immersive ethnographic account of the social world and daily activities of men serving their sentences at New York City's Rikers Island Penal colony, written by two of its former prisoners. The result is a vital glimpse behind the headlines and into the day to day reality of mass incarceration in New York City"--
Brief description: David Campbell is a writer, translator, and former antifascist political prisoner. He was a PEN America 2021 Writing for Justice Fellowship finalist, and his writing has been featured in numerous publications, including Slate, Huffington Post, CUNY Law Review, New York Focus, Truthout, and the Appeal. He is the translator of Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity.
Review Quotes: "Reams have been written on the dysfunctional horror that is Rikers... City Time gave me the best sense of the place and its ways and days."-- "Sarah D. Bunting, co-EIC of Best Evidence and proprietrix of Exhibit B. Books"