Julia Thomas Interviewed on WBAI by The Indypendent
b'This week on Indy News we speak with Julia Thomas, author of \\u201cRikers Island Transferees Now Held in Maximum Security Prison Where Drinking Water Tastes Like Sewage\\u201d from the recent Dec. issue of The Indypendent. Bedford hills, a maximum-security prison in Westchester is experiencing an influx of women and transgender and non-binary people \\u2014 all held pre-trial \\u2014 who are being transferred from Rikers Island. The controversial and inhumane transfers, which began in October, come after renewed calls to close Rikers and address the increasingly inhumane conditions on the penal colony.'