Episode Details

Clinical psychologist Philip T. Yanos, the author of "Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island," talks about host Amy Sohn about growing up in a place a stone’s throw from Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx that’s been used over decades to house the mentally ill, the homeless and migrants — and that’s now connected through landfill with the sports fields of Randall's Island.