This was the July 12 headline in the New York Times:
“In a Rikers Jail Cell, a Man Lay Dead for Hours Before He Was Discovered.”
A few months earlier, NBC News aired a segment about the New York City jail called, “An In-Depth Look at Rikers Island — Hell, Plain and Simple.”
This was where pastor and former Washington Redskins Super Bowl defensive tackle Tim Johnson believed he was needed.
The minister of the Orlando World Outreach Church was in Nashville on March 12 when Rikers Island became part of his world.
“As I do every morning, I prayed,” Johnson said.