Rickers Island is a prison which is located in New York which holds offenders who have been charged but not tried. The documentary shown shows the prison ethics and lifestyle inside the prison. It also focuses on the women’s condition inside the prison who are pregnant.
Rickers island has about eight thousand officials to run the prison. There’s a ERU (Emergency Response Unit) who are trained to handle the violent inmates and do area search. Despite of this this inmate manage to smuggle weapons, contrabands and drugs. Inmates manage to create a weapon from almost any objects and in order to maintain the secrecy they have given code names which only inmates can understand. One of the example is “Shiv” which means sharp pointed object. Most of the inmates that are held on the island are bound to return back due to their criminal acts. The video shows most inmates as Hispanic and black. The cells for males and females are separated but female officers are shown to work in male’s section efficiently and on equal footing to male officers. In the video a female officer has been shown effectively operating her duties while putting chains on inmate’s legs. …show more content…
Over 1500 female inmates are housed inside the island when the video was shot. Pregnant women’s inside the prison have babies in the prison. Many infants die due to malnutrition, drug addiction, sickness and STD. One of the inmate had a baby who had conditions related to kidney. Doctors ruled it was effect of drug abuse during pregnancy. The very same inmate had a change in her lifestyle after the pregnancy and had good behavior inside the prison. She had a self-actualization and wanted to change her lifestyle for her kid’s future. She was allowed to move freely inside the prison and she also gave suggestion to another young inmate who had been back on island after a month of being