Rikers
By: Paul Volponi.
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Seattle, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Juvenile delinquents -- Fiction.; Teenage boys -- Fiction.; Prisoners -- Fiction.; Correctional institutions -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.; Rikers Island (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Martin Stokes, known as Forty, is a seventeen-year-old awaiting trial on Rikers Island for a minor offense. After his case gets postponed in New York City's dizzying system of overworked legal-aid lawyers and short-tempered judges, Forty embarks on an extended odyssey inside the world's largest and most dangerous jail.
Notes: "Winner of the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction for 2002"--Jkt.