According to CorrectionHistory.org, the website of DOC historian Tom McCarthy (who would not be interviewed for this article), the predecessor to Rikers, Blackwell's Island, was home to a 600-foot-long penitentiary that once held roughly 7,000 inmates.
And those impressionable young men ended up in training camps in Pakistan and now are doing long stretches in penitentiaries in the United States.
The penitentiary, a long gray arcaded structure, was completed in 1832 on what was then Blackwell's Island.
"You either were going to get a long term in the penitentiary or you were going to get enough of a deterrent to get out of here".
He communicated with a few other guys who served long stretches in the penitentiary.
Something that was said often to me was, "It's easy to get respect in the penitentiary, so long as you're willing to pay the price"—Ronnie looked like he'd paid the price.
Tallying the long list of those penitentiaries is not a simple feat.
Similarly weakened, the country's penitentiary system has long been condemned by human rights groups.
By contrast, sentencing Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger to a long stint in a federal penitentiary would likely prove too much, even though senator Joe Lieberman, an occasionally moderate former Democrat, has suggested that the Times could be prosecuted.
It is a nice irony that Robert Redford, 36 years after "All the President's Men," is playing a man being relentlessly pursued by an ambitious young newspaper reporter, whose revelations look set to ruin his life, and perhaps condemn him to a very long stay in a federal penitentiary.
"Equal and exact justice would have taken this officer's life; but imprisonment in the Penitentiary for a long term of years, his loss of rank and position — if that imprisonment be without hope of pardon, as it should be — would be almost an equal example".
