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Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) [1] [2] prison island in the East River in the Bronx [3] that contains New York City 's largest jail. [4] [5] 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).
Oct 20, 2019 · Rikers Island: Tales from inside New York's notorious jail. 20 October 2019. By Rosie Blunt, BBC News. Getty Images. The campaign to shut down Rikers, famous for cruelty and abuse, has been...
Sep 15, 2021 · New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex has long had a reputation for brutal conditions, but in recent months the situation inside has spun out of control. Ten people incarcerated...
Oct 18, 2019 · Rikers Island, a New York jail notorious for the grim stories of cruelty and abuse that emerged from behind its walls, and for its infamous inmates - among them Tupac...
Oct 18, 2019 · Rikers Island, one of the country’s most notorious correctional facilities, is closing. The City Council approved plans on Thursday to close Rikers, a jail complex with nearly 10,000 beds, by...
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...
May 15, 2024 · Rikers Island, island in the East River near the entrance of Bowery Bay, north of La Guardia Airport, New York, New York, U.S. Politically part of the borough of the Bronx (north), Rikers Island is joined to the borough of Queens by a bridge (inaccessible to the public).
Mar 26, 2024 · We are closing Rikers Island. New York is leading a historic decarceration plan to close Rikers Island and replace it with a smaller network of safer modern jails.
Mar 22, 2019 · Rikers Island once called—“The City’s Island of the Damned” —was born in tragedy and scandal. Severe overcrowding and a spate of riots and legal battles across the jail’s first 45 years of existence led the city to try to get rid it and replace it with eight smaller detention centers across the boroughs in the late 1970s and 1980s.
About Rikers Island & the Borough-Based Jail System. In October 2019, the former New York City Council passed, and former Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law, land use plans to create four modern jail facilities and permanently close the jails on Rikers Island.
