This is a special edition of nightline. Hidden america inside Rikers Island. Good evening. Im rebecca jarvis. Tonight diane sawyer takes us jail complex with unprecedented access. We meet the commissioner seeking to restore humanity to the broken system. Just last week adding new Safety Measures to protect city jail staff. Another look at this special report. Reporter come with us to Rikers Island, the biggest jail complex in america, a place haunted by its violent history. 8,000 inmates living in a kind of suspension, a shadow world. Island, you can survive anything. Id like to kill myself this is a badass place. Reporter one road in, across a bridge. The inmates have nicknamed this the bridge of pain. On one side of the car we can see the new york skyline, celebrating possibility and hope. And straight ahead, a world apart. Weve been granted unprecedented access. Hi, im sawyer with abc. Reporter our cameras will have seven days inside. 70 hours. Once we enter the first lesson of rike
This is a special edition of nightline. Hidden america inside Rikers Island. Good evening. Im rebecca jarvis. Tonight diane sawyer takes us inside new yorks Rikers Island jail complex with unprecedented access. We meet the commissioner seeking to restore humanity to the broken system. Just last week adding new Safety Measures to protect city jail staff. Another look at this special report. Reporter come with us to Rikers Island, the biggest jail complex in america, a place haunted by its violent history. 8,000 inmates living in a kind of suspension, a shadow world. If you can survive Rikers Island, you can survive anything. Id like to kill myself this is a badass place. Reporter one road in, across a bridge. The inmates have nicknamed this the bridge of pain. On one side of the car we can see the new york skyline, celebrating possibility and hope. And straight ahead, a world apart. Weve been granted unprecedented access. Hi, im sawyer with abc. Reporter our cameras will have seven days
This is a special edition of nightline. Hidden america inside Rikers Island. Good evening. Im rebecca jarvis. Tonight diane sawyer takes us inside new yorks Rikers Island jail complex with unprecedented access. We meet the commissioner seeking to restore humanity to the broken system. Just last week adding new Safety Measures to protect city jail staff. Another look at this special report. Reporter come with us to Rikers Island, the biggest jail complex in america, a place haunted by its violent history. 8,000 inmates living in a kind of suspension, a shadow world. If you can survive Rikers Island, you can survive anything. Id like to kill myself this is a badass place. Reporter one road in, across a bridge. The inmates have nicknamed this the bridge of pain. On one side of the car we can see the new york skyline, celebrating possibility and hope. And straight ahead, a world apart. Weve been granted unprecedented access. Hi, im sawyer with abc. Reporter our cameras will have seven days
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