Shameless promotion: Brooke Hauser, The Changing of the Guard

Another fine article by our neighbor and friend, Brooke Hauser: On Rikers Island, A Changing of the Guard.

"IN her 19 years as a corrections officer on Rikers Island, Barbara Williams has been trapped in a mess hall with rioting inmates and thrown against an iron gate by a man twice her size who left her with a fractured shoulder. But nothing makes her wince like remembering the time an inmate commented on the way her hips swayed ever so slightly beneath her boxy blue uniform, back when she first came on the job."