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Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) prison island in the East River in the Bronx that contains New York City's largest jail. Named after Abraham Rycken, who took possession of the island in 1664, the island was originally under 100 acres (40 ha) in size, but has since grown to more than 400 acres (160 ha).
Mar 4, 2024 · A senior New York City official acknowledged on Monday that Rikers Island, one of the nation’s most notorious jails, would most likely not be closed by the legally mandated deadline of August...
Sep 15, 2021 · Rikers is a city jail, but people are sent there because they are charged with having violated state law. That means that any attempt to solve the crisis there must occur at the tricky ...
Jun 28, 2024 · The authorities were searching for the detainee, a 35-year-old man with a history of mental illness, after he eluded two guards at Bellevue Hospital Center. A Rikers Island detainee was being ...
Oct 20, 2019 · This week New York City Council voted to close Rikers Island jail, which has housed high-profile inmates including Tupac Shakur, Sid Vicious, and Mark David Chapman - the man who killed John ...
Mar 16, 2022 · A federal monitor overseeing reforms at the troubled New York City jail complex said staffing problems and high rates of violence persist. Rikers Island remains plagued by violence and disorder,...
Nov 21, 2022 · A report tracking violence at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City will be hidden from the public, preventing people from viewing documents with statistics about assaults on staff, and...
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