Vidal Guzman, a former gang member, spent time incarcerated on Rikers Island as a teenager. Now, he spreads awareness about the conditions in New York City's biggest jail and campaigns for its closure.
Forest Hills: To Vidal Guzman re “Being imprisoned shouldn’t mean being enslaved” (op-ed, Jan. 17): For you to have been charged as an adult at the age of 16 tells me that you committed a very serious crime. For you to have been moved to another facility upstate and held in solitary confinement for 905 days there tells me that you were far from a model prisoner.