They treat you like you're nothing

“... the majority of the correction officers that work in there have a ‘Don't care’ attitude. ‘Oh, you're a inmate. You committed a crime, so we're going to treat you like you're nothing.’" Gregory Pierce

Correction Officers as an extension of systemic issues like violence and drugs. Complicit in (and at times almost taking pleasure in) exploiting and abusing detainees, like gatekeepers who orchestrate and enable what happens inside.

May 17, 2021
“They treat you like you're nothing,” Rikers Public Memory Project Archive, accessed October 17, 2026, http://archive.rikersmemoryproject.org/items/show/136.