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Graham Rayman
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Rikers: An Oral History
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2023
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5 editions
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“ERVIN "EASY" HUNT: The worst part about going to jail is what we call bullpen therapy, where you go from a bullpen to another bull. pen, waiting area to waiting area to waiting area, from the precinc to the courts/central booking. Central booking, or just moving to court. If you don't get released from court, you go back down-stairs, and then the bus comes in.
I know a few people who copped out [pleaded guilty] because of bullpen therapy. And then, if your case was something that you decided you wanted to fight, you know, the bullpen therapy would happen every day. If you were on Rikers, you had to get up at the crack of dawn to go downstairs, eat, to wait in the bullpen for the bus to come to take you to the court, put you in a bullpen, put you in a bullpen, and put you in a bullpen, so it wasn't something I liked doing. The bullpen therapy would work on you.”
― Rikers: An Oral History
I know a few people who copped out [pleaded guilty] because of bullpen therapy. And then, if your case was something that you decided you wanted to fight, you know, the bullpen therapy would happen every day. If you were on Rikers, you had to get up at the crack of dawn to go downstairs, eat, to wait in the bullpen for the bus to come to take you to the court, put you in a bullpen, put you in a bullpen, and put you in a bullpen, so it wasn't something I liked doing. The bullpen therapy would work on you.”
― Rikers: An Oral History
“I was a rookie in 1989. There was an inmate when I was in GRVC [George R. Vierno Center] that got cut. They had sliced his throat. He was on the floor in the vestibule area. The probe team went inside the unit, and the captain told me to stay out and talk to him. He was lying on the floor in a puddle of blood. There was blood all around my boots. There was so much blood. He was asking, "Is it really bad? Am I going to die?" And I was saying, "It's not as bad as you think it is. You're going to be okay." But it was his throat and it was wide open on the side of his neck. I was trying to be strong for him. I had never seen a cut like that in my life. All because of (a fight over] the telephone. I was praying with him. I retired in 2015, but I'll never forget what he looked like. You never forget the traumatizing moments.”
― Rikers: An Oral History
― Rikers: An Oral History
“this old G told me right before I left... I'll remember it until the day I die. I could cry. He said, "Youngster, you go home crossing that bridge. Right?" He said, "IF you're in the back of that bus, there's one thing you don't do on your first time going home. Do not look back out the window, the back of the bus window, to the bridge. Don't do that." I said, "Okay, I got you." I got on the bus, and I fucking did it. There must have been some curse. I've been coming back and forth for the last thirty-something years. That's some strange shit. The temptation was too much. I looked back. I never saw that old dude again. That's some Twilight Zone shit.”
― Rikers: An Oral History
― Rikers: An Oral History
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