Recently Jailed New Yorkers Struggle When Dumped on Street With No ID
Leaving Rikers Island, many former detainees can’t rent apartments or get jobs - because the city lost their ID.
Morley Musick · October 20, 2020

NEW YORK, N.Y. - I came home trying to be the man I wanted to be. I had a plan. But it got derailed, said Rasheem Robinson, who was released from Rikers without ID in 2017. | Morley Musick / New York Focus
Morley Musick is a contributing editor to New York Focus and the founder of Mouse Magazine.
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