I’ve written about the situation at the Rikers Island jail complex a few times in this newsletter, and not because I like to. In fact, I hate having to continuously parse through federal monitor and Board of Correction reports about health emergencies, mismanagement, and deaths as the bodies keep piling up, and I wish I didn’t have to keep writing about it. Yet it’s precisely because of that that we can’t look away.
Author Archives: Felipe De La Hoz
Felipe De La Hoz is an immigration-focused journalist who has written investigative and analytic articles, explainers, essays, and columns for outlets including the New Republic, The Washington Post, The Intercept, The Baffler, The Appeal, The Daily Beast, The Nation, and Insider. He is a former staff writer at the investigative immigration site Documented, and along with co-writer Gaby Del Valle, created the weekly immigration policy newsletter BORDER/LINES.
