“All that jail did was made me an animal. I didn’t come in no animal. You know what I’m saying, I didn’t come in there with the intentions of causing bodily harm to anybody. You know, I was more or less trying to make sure I’m alright.” -Harvey Murphy

Title: I Didn’t Come in there an Animal

Collection: Digital Storytelling

Theme: Violence

Summary: Narrators discuss the violence on Rikers Island. The collection has numerous examples of violence that is both experienced and witnessed but also overall there is a feeling that Rikers does violence to everyone, in other words this is a pervasive sense within all of the themes.

Narrators: Harvey murphy, Davon Woodley, Cheryl Carrington, Gregory Pierce, Kandra Clark, Vidal Guzman, Elizabeth Harrison, Jessica Vargas

Creators: Joel Pacheco

Producer: Regina Campbell

Date Created: December 7, 2020

Full interviews for Harvey Murphy, Davon Woodley, Cheryl Carrington, Gregory Pierce, Kandra Clark, Vidal Guzman, Elizabeth Harrison, Jessica Vargas can be accessed here.