The inhumanity of Rikers cannot be ignored.

We are people. And this is a moment in our whole life, it's a moment can't forget the humanity, that we are people, we have families, we are connected to the outside world in some way, other than what happened, that we were incarcerated. And I think that if we could just keep that mindset with every single person, every single situation, that things would be different.

May 22, 2023

Hallie Stephenson
, “Marion's Message,” Rikers Public Memory Project Archive, accessed October 17, 2026, http://archive.rikersmemoryproject.org/items/show/317.