Sentences with phrase «largest penal colony»
The other source of negative sentiment was Rikers Island, the world's largest penal colony.
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Speaking Sunday at a press conference detailing the report, the head of the 27 - member commission, former New York Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman, excoriated Rikers Island as a «penal colony» physically and psychologically remote from the city at large that does far more harm than good to anyone who ends up there.