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...

Rikers Island Bridge (officially named Francis R. Buono Memorial Bridge) is a girder bridge that connects Rikers Island in the borough of the Bronx with...

be broken down. "Rikers Island" was later sampled on "40 Island" by Noreaga featuring Kool G Rap and Mussolini A-side "Rikers Island" (5:37) B-side "Rhyme...

teenager Kalief Browder during his extended time in pretrial detention at Rikers Island. This included video recordings of guards beating Browder, withholding...

were conducted by inmates from the nearby Rikers Island jail until 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hart Island Project, a public charity founded by visual...

York Times titled "Shut Down Rikers Island" (July 19, 2015). In the piece, Barsky argued that "the only way to transform Rikers is to destroy it; it needs...

to Close Rikers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 12, 2019. "New York city council votes to close infamous Rikers Island jails"....

African American youth from The Bronx, New York, who was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, without trial, between 2010 and 2013 for allegedly stealing...

rate in the New York City jail system is as high as 65%. The jail at Rikers Island, in New York, is making efforts to reduce this statistic by teaching...

could have led to a life sentence. Weinstein was remanded to jail at Rikers Island in New York City pending his sentencing hearing on March 11, when he...

Brother Islands are a pair of small islands located in New York City's East River between the mainland Bronx and Rikers Island. North Brother Island was once...

advised New York City's Rikers Island jail complex and tested an anti-violence strategy named "Restart" which occurred in Rikers housing units. Jail administrators...

Adolescent Inmates on Rikers Island". 17 December 2014. "Ponte says solitary confinement of young inmates now officially banned at Rikers". Politico. Weiser...

founding the United Blood Nation gang while serving a prison sentence at Rikers Island, New York, in 1993. Portee began his criminal career as a robber at...

(long-term holding facility run by the state). The Rikers Island Bridge opened in 1966. "McNeil Island". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). (Los Angeles...

of Haitian and Panamanian descent. At age 18, he was imprisoned on Rikers Island, where he formed a close bond with his cellmate, who was later discovered...

York City's imprisoned population, housing the majority of them on Rikers Island. It employs 7,060 uniformed officers and 1,727 civilian staff, has 543...

Michael Kenneth Williams as Freddy Knight, an influential prisoner at Rikers Island Bill Camp as Detective Sergeant Dennis Box, the lead detective on Nasir's...

crosses the Rikers Island Bridge onto the island itself, passing through both security checkpoints, and terminating at the Rikers Island visitors center...

converting the island to a park in 1924, and the city began planning to move Welfare Island's inmates to a new jail complex on Rikers Island further north...

on Staten Island but was previously docked on Rikers Island, near Hunts Point. Originally built in 1951, it was used by the Staten Island Ferry. Originally...

outfits for her court appearances. On Wednesday, she swapped out her Rikers Island uniform for a Michael Kors shift dress. Thursday, she paired a sheer...

Corrections. The barge is currently anchored off Staten Island but was previously docked on Rikers Island, near Hunts Point. Originally called the Cornelius...

Officers' Benevolent Association, Inc". www.cobanyc.org. "NYC DOC - Rikers Island - Anna M. Kross Center (AMKC)". 40°47′31″N 73°53′11″W / 40.79206°N...

Coast of the United States. The gang was established in 1993 at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City. The gang initially sold various narcotics...

turned himself in to the NYPD on December 23, 2021. He was sent to Rikers Island and was held without bond. On February 23, 2023, Perez and 7 others...

Carter wrote a memoir of his experience in Rikers Island called Gone Til' November: A Journal of Rikers Island that was released October 11, 2016. In December...

is imprisoned at Rikers Island and plots revenge against Fisk for his betrayal. He had his men sneak Matt Murdock out of Rikers Island amidst the chaos...

with the World Health Organization and initiated reforms at New York's Rikers Island Correctional Facility. She helped draft the United Nations chapter on...

most famous songs is "Rikers Island", which was later turned into a dancehall version by Nardo Ranks titled “Me No Like Rikers Island" (featured on the 1991...